Up From Slavery:

An Autobiography:

Electronic Edition.

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

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Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
1997.

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UP FROM SLAVERY

AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

BY
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Author of "The Future of the American Negro."

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.

Copyright 1900, 1901 by
Booker Washington
all rights reserved


PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

This volume is dedicated to my Wife
MARGARET JAMES WASHINGTON
And to my Brother
JOHN H. WASHINGTON
Whose patience, fidelity and hard work have gone far
to make the work at Tuskegee successful

PREFACE

        THIS volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. While they were appearing in that magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from all parts of the country, asking that the articles be permanently preserved in book form. I am most grateful to the Outlook for permission to gratify these requests.

        I have tried to tell a simple, straightforward story, with no attempt at embellishment. My regret is that what I have attempted to do has been done so imperfectly. The greater part of my time and strength is required for the executive work connected with the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and in securing the money necessary for the support of the institution. Much of what I have said has been written on board trains, or at hotels or railroad stations while I have been waiting [viii]for trains, or during the moments that I couldspare from my work while at Tuskegee. Withoutthe painstaking and generous assistance of Mr. Max Bennett Thrasher I could not havesucceeded in any satisfactory degree.

CONTENTS

I. A Slave Among Slaves . . . . 1

II. Boyhood Days . . . . 23

III. The Struggle for an Education . . . . 42

IV. Helping Others . . . . 63

V. The Reconstruction Period . . . . 80

VI. Black Race and Red Race . . . . 92

VII. Early Days at Tuskegee . . . . 106

VIII. Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House . . . . 118

IX. Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights . . . . 133

X. A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw . . . . 148

XI. Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie on Them . . . . 163

XII. Raising Money . . . . 177

XIII. Two Thousand Miles for a Five-Minute Speech . . . . 196

XIV. The Atlanta Exposition Address . . . . 217

XV. The Secret of Success in Public Speaking . . . . 238

XVI. Europe . . . . 267

XVII. Last Words . . . . 293  

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