Up from Slavery by Ishmael Reed, Booker T. Washington

256 pages first pub 1900 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics history challenging reflective slow-paced

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Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period. "Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Boo...

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