Up from Slavery - An Autobiography

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856–1915) was an American author, orator, educator, and adviser to numerous U.S. Presidents. He belonged to the last generation of Black Americans born into slavery and became a prominent mouthpiece for ex-slaves and their descendants. “Up from Slavery” is Washington''s 1901 autobiography, within which he recounts his astonishing journey from slave child during the C...