Item Summary

Autobiography by Booker T. Washington who was born into slavery and went on to become the head of Tuskeegee Institute, a school in Alabama.

Descriptive Information

Title
Up from slavery : an autobiography / by Booker T. Washington.
Call Number
N-003999
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc8k71nw32x
Publisher
New York : A.L. Burt Company, [1901]
©1901.
Language
English
Date Created
1901
Format
Book
Extent
ix, 330 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Inscribed by Ernest Davidson Washington, son of Booker T., on front endpaper.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Contents
A slave among slaves
Boyhood days
The struggle for an education
Helping others
The Reconstruction period
Black race and Red race
Early days at Tuskegee
Teaching school in a stable and a hen-house
Anxious days and sleepless nights
A harder task than making bricks without straw
Making their beds before they could lie on them
Raising money
Two thousand miles for a five minute speech
The Atlanta Exposition address
The secret of success in public speaking
Europe
Last words.
Notes
Includes index.
Princeton copy 1 In original dust jacket.

Discovery Information

Subject
Washington, Booker T. 1856-1915
Tuskegee Institute
African Americans—Biography
Educators—United States—Biography
collective biographies
Autobiographies
Biographies
Inscriptions

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Manuscripts of the Islamic World
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/531d6bbe-f114-4b9d-80cd-7f7972805cb9/manifest