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

UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington (1901)Read by . . : Richard AllenPublisher . : Tantor Media (2008)ISBN . . . .: 1400161347 | 9781400161348Format . . .: MP3. 18 tracks, 315 MBBitrate . . : ~100 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Mono, 44.1 kHz)Source . . .: 1 MP3-CDs (8.5 hrs)Genre . . . : Nonfiction, Autobiography, ClassicsUnabridged .: UnabridgedPDF included - ESL, ebook & reference friendly.Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included.Thanks for sharing & caring.Cheers, FerraBitOct 2010 Links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_From_Slavery Originally posted:http://thepiratebay.org/user/FerraBithttp://www.demonoid.com/users/FerraBithttp://www.kickasstorrents.com/user/FerraBit/Taken the time to read this? Take some more, and leave me a nice note of encouragement. Got your FPL card?_____________________________________________________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.  - - -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.