Up From Slavery
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940000765531 (0000765538)
Publish date: February 1st 2009
Publisher: B&R Samizdat Express
Pages no: 228
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
African American,
American History,
Biography Memoir
The Preface, by William Andrews, a scholar of African-American literature, called the 1901 autobiography Up From Slavery "one of the few African-American texts that can be legitimately termed a classic" and its subject, Booker T. Washington, "one of the most controversial figures in African-American...
I read this book in 2nd or 3rd grade. I can remember the scene: The teacher had spread out a group of biographies on the Willie Harris Elementary school library's table and asked us to chose one to read and do a report on. For whatever reason, I picked up Booker Washington's and enjoyed it. It was p...
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