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UP FROM SLAVERY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by Booker T. Washington

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Released September 1993

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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