PDF Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (Complete and unabridged.)

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Up
from
Slavery
An Autobiography unabridged.)
(Complete
and
Description
Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 - November
14, 1915) was
an
African American educator, leader, author and
orator and was an adviser to several US
presidents. He was born into slavery on a
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plantation in Virginia, rememberingquotIcannot
recall a single instance during my childhood or
early boyhood when our entire family sat down to
the table together. On the plantation in
Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten to
the children very much as dumb animals get
theirs... a piece of bread here and a scrap of
meat there.quotHewas nine when his family gained
their emancipation and he describes the rejoicing
and the apprehension as freed slaves entered a
new life. His mother took the family to the free
state of West Virginia. The only name he had
known was quotBooer,quotbut at school, when
first asked his name by the teacher, he coolly
added quotWasingtonquotto be like the other
children who had at least two names. This
established him on a path of fitting into the
white world.In the course of his life he
established the Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee
University, helped found the National Negro
Business League, now eclipsed by the NAACP, and
advised several US presidents. Between 1890 and
1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the
African American community and of the
contemporary Black elite. He established a
powerful political and financial network to
advance the cause of African Americans through
education and business known as the Tuskegee
Machine.Up from Slavery chronicles Washington's
life from slave to schoolmaster to statesman. It
was a best seller when published and for many
years
thereafter. In it he writesquotThetemptations
to were so alluring that I came very near
yielding to but I was kept from doing so by the
feeling that I
enter political life them at one time, would be
helping
in a more substantial way ... through a generous
education of the hand, head, and
heart.quotUpfrom Slavery along with Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass and du Bois's
Souls of Black Folk are essential early
African-American classics. This edition, set in
an easy to read 11 point font, is complete and
unabridged.