Booker Washington wrote the book Up from Slavery to show his hardships of living as a slave, and after being liberated from the plantation. He wanted to show people how hard his life was as a child while he was a slave, and how trying to get an education wasn’t easy. Up from Slavery depicts his life of a slave to a schoolmaster. He wrote about how as a child, he had to endure hard manual labor on a Virginia plantation, and eventually how he strived for a decent education and for relationships with great people. He stresses that it is important for the freedman to get an education in hopes it’ll ease race relations in the South. He suggests to African Americans that they can succeed in life through self-improving and hard work. In my opinion, Up from Slavery is an extremely good book. Booker Washington really gives vivid details. For example, when he tells about his childhood as a slave. He tells about the hardships he and the others endured on the plantation and how he suffered. Booker Washington also did a good job telling how getting a decent education wasn’t easy and how it is important to get one during that time. This book was really well written. Booker Washington was able to …show more content…
If someone tried to read it with no prior knowledge about slavery, they would be lost. Sure, Booker Washington does start the book out during the time he was a slave as a child, but he didn’t talk about it for a long time, so some people would be lost if they were new to what slavery is. I also think that someone should know how important it is to be free prior to reading the book. For example, there are some people in this country and in the world that take freedom for granted and never really stop to think about how important it is. There are many people, to this day, that have no idea what it is like to be