Recommended in Program(s): Challenge I Cycle(s): N/A Booker T. Washington wrote this autobiography in 1901, chronicling his journey from slavery to education to freedom. On a societal level, Washington advocates hard work and inner peace as paths to success, particularly as an African-American in the post-Civil War Sou Classical Conversations resource: https://classicalconversationsbooks.com/products/up-from-slavery-1s051