UP FROM SLAVERY - Booker T Washington Richard Allen {FerraBit} torrent

UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington (1901)

Read by . . : Richard Allen
Publisher . : Tantor Media (2008)
ISBN . . . .: 1400161347 | 9781400161348
Format . . .: MP3. 18 tracks, 315 MB
Bitrate . . : ~100 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Mono, 44.1 kHz)
Source . . .: 1 MP3-CDs (8.5 hrs)
Genre . . . : Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics
Unabridged .: Unabridged

PDF included - ESL, ebook & reference friendly.
Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included.

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Oct 2010

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_From_Slavery

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From Tantor:

For the fifty years that followed its original publication in 1901, Up
From Slavery was the most widely known book written by an African
American. The life of Booker T. Washington was the embodiment of the
American self-made man, and his autobiography gave voice for the first
time to a vast group that had to pull itself up from nothing. The
well-documented ordeals and observations of this humble and plainspoken
schoolmaster reveal traces of Washington\'s other nature: the ambitious
and tough-minded analyst. Here was a man who had to balance the demands
of his fellow blacks with the constraints imposed on him by whites.

Historically acknowledged as one of America\'s most powerful and
persuasive orators, Booker T. Washington consistently challenged the
forces of racial prejudice at a time when such behavior from a black man
was unheard of. While he mollified white leaders by publicly agreeing
with their racist views of social parity, he also worked tirelessly to
convince blacks to work together as one people in order to improve their
lives and the future of their race.

This story of Booker T. Washington\'s rise to distinction emphasizes that
a strong work ethic and excellence in whatever one is doing will be
rewarded no matter what race or what position a person holds in life. As
far as Washington was concerned, slavery only made the black person
stronger. He also argued that both blacks and whites would benefit more
from giving blacks vocational training than from encouraging the \"craze
for Greek and Latin learning.\" While this set him at odds with other
black leaders of his time, it also set the groundwork for Washington\'s
Tuskegee Institute to be the best-funded black educational institution
of its era.
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From Wiki:

Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington
detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil
War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education
at the new Hampton University, 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 blacks 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.

Washington was a somewhat controversial figure in his own lifetime, and
W. E. B. Du Bois, for example, criticized some of his views. The book
was, however, a best-seller. While it is aimed at the general reader,
V.S. Naipaul has commented that it appears to be sending out separate
messages to black and white readers.