Publisher's Synopsis
A struggle against social and ideological bias that BOOKER T. WASHINGTON began as a slave and never stopped.
Up from Slavery is a dramatic autobiographical account of Booker T. Washington's unique American experience which 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 describes his career as a public speaker and civil rights activist.
Spanning from his fight for education through his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Washington's Up from Slavery remains one of the most significant and defining works in American literature.
