Freed, he taught himself to read from Webster's 'Blue-back spelling book,' adopted his inspirational surname, and walked most of the 500 miles to attend Hampton Institute for vocational training. Washington, "the son of a black slave and a white man, was born into slavery on a Virginia plantation. Washington, ," with frontispiece portrait of Washington, a splendid copy. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition of Washington's landmark autobiography, a distinctive presentation/association copy inscribed by him the same day its recipient and a group of Northern congressman met Washington at Tuskegee, "To Judge Fuller, with kind wishes of Booker T. Octavo, original gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, top edge gilt. WASHINGTON, MAY 21, 1902": PRESENTATION/ASSOCIATION FIRST EDITION OF UP FROM SLAVERY, 1901, INSCRIBED BY BOOKER T.
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