My Larger Education: Being Chapters From My Experience by Booker T. Washingto

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his personal experiences in working to rise from the position of 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 help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in...

Booker T. Washington's autobiography is one of the greatest books ever written and gives a powerful, insightful look at one of the most influential Americans of all time. It is, rightfully, considered a must-read by many.

My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience 1911]. IT HAS been my fortune to be associated all my life with a problem a hard, perplexing, but important problem. There was a time when I looked upon this fact as a great misfortune. It seemed to me a great hardship that I was born poor, and it seemed an even greater hardship that I should have been born a Negro. I did not like to admit, even to myself, that I felt this way about the matter, because it seemed to me an indication of weakness and cowardice for any man to complain about the condition he was born to. Later I came to the...

The Story of Slavery By Booker T. Washington President of Tuskegee Institute; author of "Up From Slavery," Etc. With Biographical Sketch

Written by Booker T. Washington, The Story of Slavery is a fascinating and worthwhile read that will leave you with a vastly changed perspective.

This is an essay by Booker T. Washington about slavery. It was originally published in 1913.