Up From Slavery
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full text: The Internet Wiretap Electronic Edition of UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Booker T. Washington A Public Domain Text Released September 1993 Entered by Aloysius &tSftDotIotE aloysius@west.darkside.com --------- UP FROM SLAVERY An Autobiography by Booker Taliaferro Washington Boston New York Chicago Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge Copyright 1900, 1901 A Public Domain Text, Copyright Expired PREFACE THIS volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the _Outlook_. While they were appearing in that magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from all parts of the country, asking that the articles be permanently preserved in book form. I am most grateful to the _Outlook_ for permission to gratify these requests. I have tried to tell a simple, straightforward story, with no attempt at embellishment. My regret is that what I have attempted to do has been done so imperfectly. The greater part of my time and strength is required for the executive work connected with the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and in securing the money necessary for the support of the institution. Much of what I have said has been written on board trains, or at hotels or railroad stations while I have been waiting for trains, or during the moments that I could spare from my work while at Tuskegee. Without the painstaking and generous assistance of Mr. Max Bennett Thrasher I could not have succeeded in any satisfactory degree. UP FROM SLAVERY CHAPTER I A SLAVE AMONG SLAVES I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time. As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads post-office called Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do not know the month or the day. The earlies…