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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War to his work at founding schools to help children from black or other disadvantaged groups learn skills that would give them the chance to work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. (8 hr 38 min)

Chapters

01 - Preface & A Slave among Slaves

35:58

02 - Boyhood Days

28:54

03 - The Struggle for an Education

32:08

04 - Helping Others

24:08

05 - The Reconstruction Period

18:11

06 - Black Race and Red Race

20:44

07 - Early Days at Tuskegee

17:32

08 - Teaching School in a Stable and a Hen-House

25:28

09 - Anxious Days and Sleepless Nights

24:19

10 - A Harder Task than making Bricks without Straw

25:08

11 - Making their Beds before they could lie on them

21:51

12 - Raising Money

31:09

13 - Two Thousand Miles for a Five Minute Speech

35:04

14 - The Atlanta Exposition Address

38:34

15 - The Secret of Success in Public Speaking

49:48

16 - Europe

41:03

17 - Last Words

48:22