Up from Slavery

Ranked among the best autobiographies Up from Slavery documents the personal achievement of the renowned educator Booker T. Washington in his long journey from being born into slavery to becoming a leading educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute a famous speaker and a spokesman. What we have in Booker’s optimistic recounting of his life is a glimpse of the most dynamic period in African-American history: the transition from bondage to freedom the transformation of the miserable life of slaves working in salt mines and coal mines to their rise towards African-American integration. So much so that it demonstrates Booker’s determined efforts and unstinted courage to elevate the African-American community by proving through himself the highest values of education and dignity of work.