Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856 1915). The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schools most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating Black people and Native Americans. He describes his efforts to instill manners, breeding, health and a feeling of dignity to students. His educational philosophy stresses combining academic subjects with learning a trade (something which is reminiscent of the educational theories of John Ruskin). Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to reassure the white community as to the usefulness of educating Black people.

This book was first released as a serialized work in 1900 through The Outlook, a Christian newspaper of New York. This work was serialized because this meant that during the writing process, Washington was able to hear critiques and requests from his audience and could more easily adapt his paper to his diverse audience.[1]

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Washington was a controversial figure in his own lifetime, and W. E. B. Du Bois, among others, criticized some of his views. The book was a best-seller, and remained the most popular African American autobiography until that of Malcolm X.[2] In 1998, the Modern Library listed the book at No. 3 on its list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and in 1999 it was also listed by the conservative Intercollegiate Review as one of the "50 Best Books of the Twentieth Century

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Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington. Washington was born into slavery during the era of the Civil war and rose to become an esteemed educator who established several vocational schools as well as The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.  His goal was to help d disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. His educational philosophy stressed combining academic subjects with learning a trade (something which is reminiscent of the educational theories of John Ruskin). Washington explained that the integration of practical subjects is partly designed to reassure the white community as to the usefulness of educating Black people.

W.E.B. Dubois thought that Washington s strategy would serve only to perpetuate White oppression. The African American community of the time was polarized but these notions of how best to achieve freedom from discrimination with Dubois  followers urging protest and agitation while Washinton s followers urged accepting for the moment the status quo and building up their community within the current system.  Up From Slavery remains one of the most powerful personal memoirs from a self-made man who overcame extraordinary obstacles to not only succeed but devote his life to the success of others.

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