Up from Slavery Booker T Washington This is a prominent autobiography of Booker T. Washington, who recalls the _ important incidents of his life. ln his childhood he had been working as a slave. In the book the author recollects his childhood as aslave and also the varied problems he went through in order to attain education.fHe had worked and in fact,'struggled to get himself educated. Then, how he went onto be the founder ofthe Tuskegee Institute, and became so famouglthat he even got to meet national level leaders while working for the Institute. By the means of this story the author wishes to confirm that one can liberate himself or herself only and only through hard work, education and by so W 5 being independent.