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Up from Slavery

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First  Edition©2003  Booker T. Washington; Edited by W. Fitzhugh Brundage

ISBN:9781319328382

ISBN:9780312394486

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With supplementary material addressing the life and career of Booker T. Washington, criticisms from within the African American community, the social and political context in which the book was published, reactions to its publication, and the ways in which Washington carefully crafted his autobiography to further his cause among white audiences, this edition of Up From Slavery contains the prominent orator and educators autobiography alongside resources that put his journey out of slavery into context.

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Table of Contents

  Foreword
  Preface
    
PART ONE
  Introduction: An Exemplary Citizen
    Washingtons Life
    Writing Up From Slavery
    Critical Response to Up From Slavery
    Washingtons Leadership Style
    Up From Slavery and Traditions of Black Autobiography
    Washingtons Program of Racial Uplift
    Washingtons Career After Up From Slavery
    Washingtons Legacy
    
PART TWO
  The Document
    Up From Slavery
    
PART THREE
  Related Documents
    1. Timothy Thomas Fortune, Letter to Booker T. Washington, 1895
    2. Booker T. Washington, Letter to Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, 1895
    3. Booker T. Washington, An Open Letter to Benjamin Ryan Tillman, 1895
    4. Booker T. Washington, A Statement on Southern Politics, 1900
    5. Booker T. Washington, Letter to John A. Hertel, 1900
    6. Lyman Abbott, Letter to Booker T. Washington, 1900
    7. Booker T. Washington, Letter to Lyman Abbott, 1900
    8. W. E. B. Du Bois, Book Review of Up From Slavery, 1901
    9. William Dean Howells, A Review of Up From Slavery, 1901
    10. Booker T. Washington, Letter to Edgar Gardner Murphy, 1904
    11. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington and His Critics, 1904
    
  Appendixes
    A Washington Chronology (1856–1915)
    Questions for Consideration
    Selected Bibliography
    
  Index

Booker T. Washington

W. Fitzhugh Brundage

W. Fitzhugh Brundage has taught history at the University of Florida and is now William B. Umstead Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A specialist on the South and modern U.S. history, he is the editor of Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity (2000) and Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (1997); author of A Socialist Utopia in the New South: The Ruskin Colonies of Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901 (1996) and Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930 (1993), which won the OAHs Merle Curti Award in 1994. He has received fellowships and grants from the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Virginia Historical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.