How Did Booker T Washington Write Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington was an African-American who was born into slavery in the mid-to-late-1850s. Washington grew up in Virginia on a plantation. Despite the fact that he did not grow up in the best shape of living his mother took care of them as best as she could. Washington did not know who his father was. He had assumed his father was someone on a nearby plantation close to the one he and his mother had lived on at the time. Once enslaved people were freed at the end of the Civil War, Washington’s mother decided to move with his stepfather to a small town Malden, West Virginia. Not only was Washington clueless about who his father was he also did not know his last name. When Washington, as a young man, attended school for the first time without knowing what his last name was, he took Washington as his last name. As a young boy, Washington had his first job working in the salt-mine, alongside his stepfather. Washington wrote the book Up From Slavery, which is an autobiography of his. Leaving out no minor parts of his life, Washington into great detail about how he achieved his accomplishments. Washington starts by going back to the days before he had been allowed to know how to read. Keeping no experience from the audience, Washington provided readers with what life was like for a young man who was

The author covered in great detail how he went the extra mile to gain his education. Washington’s mother is the reason behind it all. She was the very first person to give him a book which was a dictionary that he read until he was able to completely read. I would have liked for the author to go into more details on how difficult of a task it was to learn to read. That would have allowed us, readers, to see how much dedication he had at a young age. The author later one shows us that dedication when he shares his experience trying to make it to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural