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Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1 Volumes 1-14 / Volume 1, The autobiographical writings / [electronic resource] : Louis R. Harlan, editor ; John W. Blassingame, assistant editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915.
- Washington, Booker T.
- African Americans--Correspondence.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964--Sources.
- African Americans--History--1863-1877--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (xl, 469 pages) :) illustrations, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, [1972]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Here is the first of fifteen volumes in a project C. Vann Woodward has called "the single most important research enterprise now under way in the field of American black history." Volume 1 contains Washington's Up from Slaver, one of the most widely read American autobiographies, The Story of My Life and Work, and six other autobiographical writings. They are a good first step toward understanding Washington because they reveal the moral values he absorbed from his min-nineteenth-century experiences and teachers, and they present him to the world as he wished to be seen: the black version of the American success hero and the exemplar of the Puritan work ethic, which he believed to be the secret of his success. His writings served a success model for many blacks who wished to overcome poverty and prejudice.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The story of my life and work, 1900
- Up from slavery, 1901
- A letter to the editors of the Southern workman, September 28, 1895
- "Early life and struggle for an education," October 1899
- "Christmas days in old Virginia," December 1907
- An extract from "The privilege of service," December 1907
- Extracts from The story of the Negro, 1909
- Extracts from My larger education, 1911.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-252-09860-9
- OCLC:
- 926061116
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