The Question and Answer section for Up From Slavery is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Washington and his brother were also forced to work in the salt furnaces. It was at this job where he learned his first symbols, the number "18," which signified his stepfather's salt barrels.
Often I began work as early as four o'clock in the...
Washington wanted to educate them. Education was the key that would emancipate people from oppression.
Booker's Mother:
Soon after we got settled in some manner in our new cabin in West Virginia, I induced my mother to get hold of a book for me. How or where she got it I do not know, but in some way she procured an old copy of Webster's "blue-back"...
