Name: | Up from Slavery |
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By: | Booker T. Washington |
Narrated by: | Noah Waterman |
Series: | |
Length | 6 hrs and 8 mins |
Category: | Biographies & Memoirs, Cultural, Ethnic & Regional |
Release Date: | 0001-06-17 |
Language: | English |
Up from Slavery is an autobiography published in 1901 by Booker T. Washington. The book describes Washington’s personal experiences in working to rise from the position of a slave to that of an educated African-American leader.
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