Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

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Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: 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 This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

Disponibile da: 06/06/2026.

Lunghezza di stampa: 208 pagine.

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