Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Author(s): Booker T. Washington

Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography

Narrators: Andy Yu, Tom Crawford, John W. Michaels, Jay Vance, Lorelle Anderson, Katie Riley, Ancient Mariner, Crash, Mwalimu, Preston McConkie, Anna Roberts, Jim Clevenger, Fr. Richard Zeile Of Detroit

Number of Chapters: 18

Length: 7 hours and 58 minutes

Language: English

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. 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 help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. (Summary from Wikipedia)