Up from Slavery

By: Booker T. Washington

Narrated by: Deaver Brown

The most famous and admired Black man of his era because of his calm but passionate commitment to Blacks to rise by practical work, as well as to higher artistic and intellectual callings. Admired and followed by such different leaders as General George Patton, Harvard President Charles Elliot, W.E.B. DuBois, Susan B. Anthony, Presidents Cleveland and McKinley, and Queen Victoria.

Public Domain (P)2021 Deaver Brown

Unlistenable

The production on this is inexcusably, insufferably awful. The narration is painfully incompetent, and the repetitive Muzak piano riff destroys all hope of hear the great text of Booker T Washington.

Learn to edit

The reading of this book is terrible. It’s as if an uninterested high school student was being forced to give a report. The tinkling piano is just as bad. The book itself is great and important, just wish some industry had been employed in the performance and production.

Terrible Background Music

I can’t stand the background music. It grated. On my nerves after a short time.

Horrible recitation

The book stands on its own. This audio version, read by Deaver Brown, is truly terrible. There is piano music laying (the same eight bars repeating) throughout the entire book. Very distracting- like listening to a story being told in a bar. The readers voice is poor- mispronunciation, stumbles that should have been re-taped, and passages in which the reader runs out of breath all are found here. There are other versions- please get one of those and skip this reader.