Up from Slavery
An Autobiography
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
7 January 1986
Summary
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
In Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life—from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of Up From Slavery, Washington …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140390513 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140390510 |
| Author: | Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 1986 |
| Weight: | 283g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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About The Author
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave on a Virginia farm. Later freed, he headed and developed the Tuskegee Institute and became a leader in education. Widely considered a spokesman for his people, he emphasized social concern in three books as well as his autobiography.
Louis R. Harlan, born in Clay County, Mississippi, in 1922, is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Separate and Unequal and of a two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington. He is the editor, with Raymond W. Smock, of The Booker T. Washington Papers (13 vols.). He has been awarded the Beveridge Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Washington.
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