While working in the salt mines, Booker hears of an opportunity to pursue an education. The author further realizes the importance of an education. Newfound freedom gives the Washington family the opportunity to move. The author's earliest memories of childhood and the conditions in which his family lived and worked are explained. IntroductionĪn introduction to the original text, written by Walter H. The Author explains the incidents that lead to the writing of his autobiography. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans.
Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools (most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama), to helping black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T.
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