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Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
by Booker T. Washington

This volume is dedicated to my Wife Margaret James Washington And to my Brother
John H. Washington Whose patience, fidelity, and hard work have gone far to make the
work at Tuskegee successful.

Preface
This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life,
which were published consecutively in the Outlook. While they were appearing in that
magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from all
parts of the country, asking that the articles be permanently preserved in book form. I am
most grateful to the Outlook for permission to gratify these requests.
I have tried to tell a simple, straightforward story, with no attempt at embellishment. My
regret is that what I have attempted to do has been done so imperfectly. The greater part
of my time and strength is required for the executive work connected with the Tuskegee
Normal and Industrial Institute, and in securing the money necessary for the support of
the institution. Much of what I have said has been written on board trains, or at hotels or
railroad stations while I have been waiting for trains, or during the moments that I could
spare from my work while at Tuskegee. Without the painstaking and generous assistance
of Mr. Max Bennett Thrasher I could not have succeeded in any satisfactory degree.

Introduction
The details of Mr. Washington's early life, as frankly set down in "Up from Slavery," do
not give quite a whole view of his education. He had the training that a coloured youth
receives at Hampton, which, indeed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader does
not get his intellectual pedigree, for Mr. Washington himself, perhaps, does not as clearly
understand it as another man might. The truth is he had a training during the most
impressionable period of his life that was very extraordinary, such a training as few men
of his generation have had. To see its full meaning one must start in the Hawaiian Islands
half a century or more ago.* There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of missionary parents,
earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this
small sum and the earnestness that the undertaking implied, he came to Williams College
when Dr. Mark Hopkins was president. Williams College had many good things for
youth in that day, as it has in this, but the greatest
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