Published in 1901, Up from Slavery is Booker T. Washington’s account of his journey from birth into slavery in Virginia, through the hardships of post-Civil War Reconstruction, to his founding of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and his emergence as the most influential Black leader in America of his era. Washington’s prose is clear, measured, and marked by a deep belief in education, self-reliance, and practical achievement.
One of the most widely read American autobiographies ever written, Up from Slavery remains a landmark in African American literature and the literature of social uplift. Download the free EPUB and be inspired by one of history’s extraordinary lives.