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Up From Slavery

An Autobiography [Paperback]

by Booker T. Washington

    • Author

      Booker T. Washington

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Penguin Group Usa #711

    • Published

      June 1986

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      Up From Slavery

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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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      • Author

        Booker T. Washington

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Penguin Group Usa #711

      • Published

        June 1986

      • Weight

        277g

      • Page Count

        400

      • Dimensions

        130 x 202 x 20 mm

      • ISBN

        9780140390513

      • ISBN-10

        0140390510

      • Eden Code

        3991164

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      • Author/Creator: Booker T. Washington

      • ISBN: 9780140390513

      • Publisher: Penguin Group Usa #711

      • Release Date: June 1986

      • Weight: 277g

      • Dimensions: 130 x 202 x 20 mm

      • Eden Code: 3991164

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