Up from Slavery: with Related Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture (Paperback)) - Softcover

Washington, Booker T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312394489 ISBN 13: 9780312394486

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002

Synopsis

Detailing how Booker T. Washington rose from slavery to become one of the nation's most prominent orators and educators at the turn of the 20th century, Up from Slavery chronciles the journey through Washington's own words alongside documents that put the book into context.

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Review:

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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About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312394489
• ISBN 13: 9780312394486
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Brundage W. Fitzhugh