Up from Slavery (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- First Published: 1901
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, Social reform, Blacks, Race, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Education or educators, Schools or school life, Public speaking
- Locales: Virginia, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Tuskegee, AL, West Virginia
Critical Evaluation:
Booker Taliaferro Washington’s best-selling autobiography, Up from Slavery, translated into at least fifteen languages around the world, is part of an African American literary tradition that has found its place among the American classics. The book’s fifteen chapters give a progressive historical account of the author’s life as it began on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, in 1858. The poverty and human misery of Washington’s early years are documented with unusual candor in the first two chapters. He did not know his father, had...
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