Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington, the author of Up From Slavery, is the subject of his novel as well. In Booker's autobiography, he tells the story of what life was like growing up as a colored person after the revolution. Where most slavery novels tell stories of hardships faced while in bondage, Booker tells the story from a different perspective - what life was like growing up as a free man. When Booker was …showed first 75 words of 928 total…

…showed last 75 words of 928 total…the job of running a school could never be completed in Booker's eyes, and he died of overworking himself in the year of 1915. Even though the man that created the school and paved the way for the education of his race may have passed away, his memory and accomplishments live on to this day as a reminder of the hardships and struggle the negro race had to go through to be what they are today.