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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life-from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of Up Fr...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn Up from Slavery, Washington recounts the story of his life-from slave to educator. The early sections deal with his upbringing as a slave and his efforts to get an education. Washington details his transition from student to teacher, and outlines his own development as an educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. In the final chapters of Up Fr...

CONTENTSChronologyFrederick Douglass, the SlaveBack to Plantation-LifeEscape from Slavery, Learning the Ways of FreedomBeginning of His Public CareerSlavery and Anti-SlaverySeeks Refuge in EnglandHome Again as a Freeman - New Problems and New TriumphsFree Colored People and ColonizationThe Underground Railway and the Fugitive Slave LawDouglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and John BrownForebodings of the CrisisDouglass's Services in the Civil WarEar...