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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
by Washington, Booker T[aliaferro]. (1856-1915)
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- first
- Condition
- Near fine. Bound in maroon ribbed cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, top edge gilt. Faint scatter
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1901. First printing. Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 330 pages. Near fine. Bound in maroon ribbed cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, top edge gilt. Faint scattered foxing to endpapers, minor extremity rubs and shallow bumps. Hinges sound. A bright copy, better than often seen.. Black and white frontispiece photograph. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Franklin County, Virginia--the illegitimate son of a white man and a black woman.<br /> <br /> Washington graduated from the Hampton Institute, founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, and travelled and lectured extensively. His autobiography is very detailed throughout, covering his childhood memories, his struggles as a student, his presidency at Tuskegee, and the pride of his race.<br /> <br /> BLOCKSON, COLLECTOR'S CHOICE #51.
Synopsis
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was born a slave on a Virginia farm. Later freed, he headed and developed the Tuskegee Institute and became a leader in education. Widely considered a spokesman for his people, he emphasized social concern in three books as well as his autobiography. Louis R. Harlan , born in Clay County, Mississippi, in 1922, is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Separate and Unequal (University of North Carolina Press, 1958) and of a two-volume biography of Booker T. Washington (Oxford University Press, 1972, 1983). He is the editor, with Raymond W. Smock, of The Booker T. Washington Papers (13 vols., University of Illinois Press, 1972-84). He has been awarded the Beveridge Prize, Bancroft Prize, and Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Washington.
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- Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1134
- Title
- Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
- Author
- Washington, Booker T[aliaferro]. (1856-1915)
- Illustrator
- Black and white frontispiece photograph
- Format/Binding
- Cloth over boards. Octavo. x, 330 pages
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine. Bound in maroon ribbed cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, top edge gilt. Faint scatter
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page, & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- african americana, black americana, racial issues, education, slavery, memoirs, slave memoirs
- Bookseller catalogs
- History & Politics; Americana;
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Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB
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