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Up from Slavery: an Autobiography (An African American Heritage Book)

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Up from Slavery: an Autobiography (An African American Heritage Book)

by: Booker T. Washington

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9781604591958
ISBN: 1604591951
Item Dimensions: 149.586225.25
Label: Wilder Publications
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Wilder Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 148
Publication Date: January 14, 2008
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Studio: Wilder Publications

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Up from Slavery is one of the most influential biographies ever written. On one level it is the life story of Booker T. Washington and his rise from slavery to accomplished educator and activist. On another level it the story of how an entire race strove to better itself. Washington makes it clear just how far race relations in America have come, and to some extent, just how much further they have to go. Written with wit and clarity.

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Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W.E.B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society.

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