Up from Slavery : an autobiography / by Booker T. Washington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bantam biographies.

Bantam biographies ; FB 406

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.

Washington, Booker T.

Tuskegee Institute.

African Americans--Biography.

African Americans.

Educators--United States--Biography.

Educators.

African American educators.

United States.

African American educators--Biography.

Enslaved persons--United States--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons' writings, American.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (label) (Banks Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

241 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Published by Bantam Books, Inc., 1956.

Contents:

A slave among Slaves

Boyhood days

The struggle for an education

Helping others

The Reconstruction Period

Black Race and Red Race

Early days at Tuskegee

Teaching school in a stable and a hen-house

Anxious days and sleepless nights

A harder task than making bricks without straw

Making their beds before they could lie on them

Raising money

Two thousand miles for a five-minute speech

The Atlanta Exposition address

The secret of success in public speaking

Europe

Last words.

Notes:

"Cover painting by Warren Baumgartner."

"Bantam edition, published May 1956."

"Published by arrangement with Doubleday & Company, Inc."

Publisher's advertisements: [4] pages at end.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has white oval label with name Joanna Banks pasted on front cover.

OCLC:

1345487