Up From Slavery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Up From Slavery, credited to Booker T. Washington, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington. Read in English by Mark Nelson Up from Slavery is the 1921 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black people learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and Native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. (Mark Nelson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Up From Slavery
• Author credits: Booker T. Washington
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:22:45

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• autobiography

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface & Introduction — 19:09
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 30:00
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 24:19
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 27:18
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 22:01
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 14:49
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 18:05
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 15:34
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 19:41
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 19:04
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 19:29
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 18:05
13. 12 - Chapter 12 — 25:37
14. 13 - Chapter 13 — 27:02
15. 14 - Chapter 14 — 28:51
16. 15 - Chapter 15 — 40:33
17. 16 - Chapter 16 — 34:08
18. 17 - Chapter 17 — 39:00

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