Up from Slavery An Autobiography of Emancipation, Education, Tuskegee, and a Life of Purpose
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.10.2026
Verlag
Curated Collection PublishingSeitenzahl
220
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/1,3 cm
Gewicht
259 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798182843683
The autobiography follows Washington's development as educator, fundraiser, institution builder, and national speaker. He describes the practical difficulties of building Tuskegee from limited resources, recruiting students and teachers, raising money, and creating an educational program centered on academic study, skilled labor, discipline, and economic self-sufficiency.
Washington also uses his life story to explain a broader philosophy of racial advancement. He argues for education, vocational training, property ownership, productive work, and economic independence as foundations for progress. Those ideas made him one of the most influential Black leaders of his era, while his willingness to accept segregation and political inequality in the short term also drew criticism from figures who demanded more immediate civil and political rights.
Published in book form in 1901 after serialization in The Outlook, Up from Slavery became one of the most widely read African American autobiographies of its period. Its account of Washington's rise from enslavement to national prominence offers both a personal narrative and a record of the educational and political debates that shaped the decades after Reconstruction.
Throughout the book, Washington presents work, education, character, and institution building as practical means of transforming individual lives and communities. At the same time, the autobiography provides modern readers with direct access to the arguments, compromises, ambitions, and limitations that defined his public philosophy.
For readers interested in American history, African American autobiography, education, Reconstruction and its aftermath, and the history of Tuskegee, Up from Slavery remains an important firsthand account of one of the most influential and debated figures of his generation.
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