Up From Slavery
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Up From Slavery
| Full title | Up from Slavery: An Autobiography |
|---|---|
| Author | Booker T. Washington |
| Published | 1901 |
| Pages | 332 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Booker T. Washington’s memoir, from slavery in Virginia and the salt furnaces and coal mines of his childhood, through Hampton Institute — where he swept a classroom as his entrance exam — to the founding of Tuskegee. Also the fullest statement of his programme: trades, property, thrift and demonstrated competence first, agitation for political rights deferred — disputed hard in his own lifetime, most famously by W. E. B. Du Bois. |
Up From Slavery
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum from the Substack writer (December 2025), under Autobiography in the Ages 13–99+ band; at Lexile 1320 the hardest of those entries, and the only one by a formerly enslaved author.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Booker T. Washington — the author and founder of Tuskegee.
- Education — the institution-building that is the book’s second half.
- People Over Politics — Washington’s explicit wager, and the part of the book that was contested.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.