Up From Slavery.(Independent reading)

This book tells the story of the life of Booker T. Washington. He describes the life of a slave and how it is as if you have no owner ship of anything. Not even your own children. He speaks of how he was born in a log cabin about 14 by 6 feet. He, his brother, his sister, and his mother all shared this cabin with other slaves. It had a dirt floor, a thatched roof, and no bed. He also talks about how his mother would have to make their cloths out of old cotton and how many of them really didn’t have shoes. Not much attention was given to the slave family, and none of them really had any family history. They could not count so they had no real age all they could do was guess their age. All day and into most of the early part of night he worked. None f his life was devoted to play time or free time. Families had to eat what ever they could find and often it was scraps of what ever the master's family didn’t eat. Slaves were not allowed to get married so they held private wedding in their cabins where somebody would say a few words and they would jump a broom.