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UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography
by Washington, Booker T
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- first
- Condition
- Near fine.
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1901. Near fine.. First edition of Washington's autobiography, detailing his rise from a life born into slavery to becoming the esteemed leader of the Tuskegee Institute. Booker T. Washington's dogged hard work and personal brand of bootstrapping, while sometimes criticized by contemporaries such as W.E.B. Du Bois, was an inspiration to many. His advocacy for the rights and education of Black Americans - discussed in this his most famous work - made him one of the most influential forces in the post-Reconstruction era. UP FROM SLAVERY was ranked third on The Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century, and until the publication of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X it remained the best-selling African American autobiography of all time (Alridge 270). A handsome copy of a landmark book. 8'' x 5.5''. Original red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge machine deckle. Black-and-white pictorial frontispiece. Variant with "Author of" phrase on title page. x, 330 pages, including index. Ink owner name, dated Dec 25 1901 (year of publication), to front fly leaf. Touches of rubbing at extremities. Slight lean. Some cracking to gutter of early leaf (still firm), else clean and sound throughout.
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
- Type Punch Matrix
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50278
- Title
- UP FROM SLAVERY: An Autobiography
- Author
- Washington, Booker T
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- 20th century,US American,African American author,African American subject,Association Copy
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