Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
by WASHINGTON, Booker T
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Rocky River, Ohio, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Cleveland Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9516
- Title
- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- Author
- WASHINGTON, Booker T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Black history, African-Americana
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Cleveland Book Company
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Cleveland Book Company
About Cleveland Book Company
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