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Up from Slavery (The Norton Library) (Norton Ebook)

By:Booker T Washington, Jarvis R. Givens
Publisher:W. W. Norton
Print ISBN:9780393887129
eText ISBN:9780393887150
Edition:1
Copyright:2023
Format:Online Resource

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One of the foremost African American intellectual leaders of the 20th century, Booker T. Washington, an educator, author, and orator, is best known for his advocacy of Black progress through education and entrepreneurship. The Norton Library edition of his seminal autobiography, Up from Slavery, features the text of the first (1901) edition, explanatory endnotes, and an introduction by Jarvis R. Givens (Harvard University) that highlights Washington’s life and work, discusses and contextualizes his strategies for racial uplift, and invites a nuanced reading of an author often dismissed for his “conservative” ideology.