Up from Slavery

While I usually like to give summaries of books or more so reflections of book I think are noteworthy, but to refer to Up from Slavery as such is degrading. From Booker T. Washington’ s upbringing as a slave, to his self imposed erudition, to the journey to Hampton, to his journey of distinction—Booker T. Washington composed a book that was far more than a much needed read. It’s a book that I finished in two days because it’s impossible to put down. It’s almost blasphemous for one to perjure that their attention won’t become entangled in Booker T. Washington’s inextricable lines of wisdom, motivation and anecdotes. It influenced the work of many great intellectuals to come after him by challenging many to reconsider the optical dichotomy people viewed race through.