Heĭescribes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feelingįor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools (most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama), to helping. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington believes that slavery has given black Americans a distorted perception of laborthat it is a degrading rather than an uplifting and honorable practice. People learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves upīy the bootstraps. The Dignity of Labor Perhaps the most developed theme in Up From Slavery is that of finding dignity in labor. To his work establishing the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black Washington has won the gratitude of all thoughtful Southern white men, is to say that he has worked with the highest practical wisdom at a large constructive task for no plan for the up-building of the freedman could succeed that ran counter to Southern opinion.

Obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, Position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and Sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy The Civil War Reconstruction and Its Aftermath The Booker T. Up from Slavery is the 1921 autobiography of Booker T. He reflects on the generosity of teachers and philanthropists. LibriVox recording of Up From Slavery by Booker T. Up from Slavery (1901) is Washingtons personal narrative about his experiences as a slave-child and the generosity of teachers and. Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T.

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington