num_pages: 196
description: For the 50 years that followed its publication in 1901, Up from Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African American. The life of Booker T. Washington embodied the legendary rise of an American self-made man, and his autobiography gave voice for the first time to a vast groupthat had to pull itself up from nothing. In the well-documented ordeals and observations of this humble and plainspoken schoolmaster we find traces of Washington's other the ambitious and tough-minded analyst. Here was a man who had to balance the demands of his fellow blacks with theconstraints imposed on him by whites.
language: English
title: Up from Slavery
titlecomplete: Up from Slavery (Oxford World's Classics)
characters: Booker T. Washington
genres: Memoir, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, American History, Biography, Race, History, Classics, African American
ratings_count: 32997
places: The United States of America
publisher: Oxford University Press