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Title: Up From Slavery

Author: Booker T. Washington

Narrator: Joan Bailey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Release date: October 3, 2018

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Essays & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary: Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black people learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves 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.