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Up from Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 1901
Pages
Pages 240

A boy born enslaved in Virginia works salt furnaces and coal mines after emancipation, begs his way to a school for Black students, and builds a college from a shanty in Alabama, preaching labour and patience to a country that denies him justice.

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Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington

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