# Up from Slavery

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- Book: [Up from Slavery](https://www.bookquiver.com/booker-washington/up-from-slavery) ([Up from Slavery.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/booker-washington/up-from-slavery.md))
- Authors: [Booker Washington](https://www.bookquiver.com/booker-washington)
- Publisher: union_square_co
- ISBN: 978-14-5494-999-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2023-08-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for Black economic independence, Washington attempted to balance his public acceptance of segregation with behind-the-scenes lobbying against voter disenfranchisement and financing anti–Jim Crow court cases. His memoir is both a crucial American document and an exercise in understanding the “double consciousness” coined by W. E. B. DuBois, himself one of Washington’s most vocal critics.