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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Biography & MemoirsEnglish
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Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia and never knew the date of his birth. After emancipation he worked as a boy in salt furnaces and coal…

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Author
Booker T. Washington
Category
Biography & Memoirs
Language
English
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Project Gutenberg

About this book

Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Virginia and never knew the date of his birth. After emancipation he worked as a boy in salt furnaces and coal mines, then walked hundreds of miles to Hampton Institute, where he was admitted after cleaning a room so carefully that the teacher could not find a speck of dust. He tells how, in 1881, he founded a school for Black students in Tuskegee, Alabama, which the students built brick by brick.

Context and significance

Published in 1901, the autobiography made Washington (1856–1915) the most influential Black leader of his day and preaches self-help and patience. Its cautious approach to civil rights was sharply criticised by W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk. Read it with Frederick Douglass's Narrative.

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