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 LibriVox volunteers. Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, 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. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Up from Slavery
• Author credits: Booker T. Washington
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 7:58:12

Catalogue topics

• booker washington
• autobiography
• civil war
• slavery
• african americans
• native americans
• education

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface/Introduction — 24:14
2. 01 - A Slave Among Slaves — 37:08
3. 02 - Boyhood Days — 28:56
4. 03 - The Struggle For An Education — 31:03
5. 04 - Helping Others — 22:57
6. 05 - The Reconstruction Period — 18:01
7. 06 - Black Race And Red Race — 16:31
8. 07 - Early Days At Tuskegee — 18:16
9. 08 - Teaching School In A Stable And A Hen-House — 22:56
10. 09 - Anxious Days And Sleepless Nights — 21:27
11. 10 - A Harder Task Than Making Bricks Without Straw — 22:52
12. 11 - Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them — 17:36
13. 12 - Raising Money — 27:05
14. 13 - Two Thousand Miles For A Five-Minute Speech — 25:12
15. 14 - The Atlanta Exposition Address — 24:10
16. 15 - The Secret Of Success In Public Speaking — 35:09
17. 16 - Europe — 41:09
18. 17 - Last Words — 43:37

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