Up From Slavery (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Booker T. Washington grew up as a slave child during the Civil War. His autobiography describes the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education, and his work helping black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills to elevate themselves as a race. Up from Slavery chronicles more than forty years of Washington's life: from slave to schoolmaster to the face of southern race relations.

America in the 1880's and 1890's was an intense time of hostilit...