Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War to his work at founding schools to help children from black or other disadvantaged groups learn skills that would give them the chance to work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface & A Slave among Slaves
35:59 - Chapter 2
Boyhood Days
28:54 - Chapter 3
The Struggle for an Education
32:08 - Chapter 4
Helping Others
24:08 - Chapter 5
The Reconstruction Period
18:11 - Chapter 6
Black Race and Red Race
20:45 - Chapter 7
Early Days at Tuskegee
17:32 - Chapter 8
Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House
25:29 - Chapter 9
Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights
24:19 - Chapter 10
A Harder Task than making Bricks without Straw
25:09 - Chapter 11
Making their Beds before they could lie on them
21:51 - Chapter 12
Raising Money
31:09 - Chapter 13
Two Thousand Miles for a Five Minute Speech
35:04 - Chapter 14
The Atlanta Exposition Address
38:34 - Chapter 15
The Secret of Success in Public Speaking
49:49 - Chapter 16
Europe
41:03 - Chapter 17
Last Words
48:23