A review by jordana_dear
Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

3.0

This book was relatively mundane and didn't provide as much detail or education about Washington's life as I expected. He so lightly touched on his experience as a slave that i was surprised to not learn more about his more formative years while enslaved. His theories and philosophy seem to be deeply sympathetic towards the people who enslaved him as well as expectant that you alone make your way in the world and rather efacing of any systems built to keep down those who are not white. Knowing that Washington has faced pushback for his views from other Black voices whose experience was and is still violent and harder to rise from makes more sense to me after reading this.