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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2015
      04 December 2014
      ISBN:
      9781316018231
      9781108079402
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316018231
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 346 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, American Studies, American History 1861-1900, History, African History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, American Studies, American History 1861-1900, History, African History, Early Republic and Antebellum History
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    Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) educated himself tirelessly in the years after the American Civil War. In 1881, he was appointed head of the Tuskegee Institute, a teacher-training college for African Americans. As a writer, orator and fundraiser, he became one of the leading figures of the black community. Washington argued that the best way of bettering the social position of African Americans was through vocational education, which would make them indispensable and productive members of society. In this 1901 autobiography, he uses his life as an example to illustrate these principles, covering particularly the work of the Tuskegee Institute and his fundraising on behalf of black education. The book also contains the full text of his 1895 Atlanta Exposition speech, which created the model for Southern race relations until Washington's death and the emergence of more overtly assertive African-American civil rights leaders.

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