The Most Popular Non-Fiction Bestsellers Books - Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery Info, Plot Summary, Review and Booker T. Washington Biography
Author: Booker T. Washington
Book: Up from Slavery (160 Pgs.)
Up from Slavery chronicles over forty years of Washington's life: from slave to schoolmaster to the face of southern race relations. In this text, Washington climbs the social ladder through hard, manual labor, a decent education, and relationships with great people. Throughout the text, he stresses the importance of education for the black population as a reasonable tactic to ease race relations in the South (particularly in the context of Reconstruction). He argues for combining the learning of a trade with more intellectual studies (a combination which is reminiscent of Ruskin's philosophy in Fors Clavigera).
Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington: Up from Slavery - Review
Reviewed by Brad Nelson
After having put this book aside for a while, I finally finished Booker T. Washington’s “Up From Slavery.” You realize just how destructive and pathetic the “civil rights” movement has become (filled with race-mongers such as Jesse Jackson) when you see the approach of a good and decent man. As Allan West says, blacks today really are on another type of plantation.
Booker T. Washington was fresh off the old one. And he did something you just don’t see these days. He worked hard to unite the races instead of fomenting grievance. Instead of telling his race that they were owed a living by whitey, he told them they must work hard and get an education.
Had the South followed his lead (and many white Southerns did and joined in the cause) instead of following the Democrat Party-backed KKK and the entire attitude of marginalizing blacks, we would be a hundred years ahead of where we are now.
This biography is not quite as gripping as that of the one written by Frederick Douglass, but they don’t overlap. Douglass’ biography mainly covers his life as a slave. Washington’s takes a look at that unique post-war period when nobody knew what to do. There were millions of uneducated former slaves who somehow how to make it in a society that was also filled with its share of uneducated white people.
Washington was a practical man. His philosophy was that if members of his race got a good education and made themselves useful, the rest would take care of itself. He wanted economic opportunity and wasn’t as concerned with social equality. I think it was a smart move. We see that today. Things such as affirmative action simply breed resentment. But when someone of any race can fix your car or whatever, that is the road to putting little emphasis of race.
By the sheer will of his eloquence and good ideas, Booker T. Washington gained adherents from all races, north and south. It is a forgotten time. Now race and victimhood are the mainstay of Democrat Party politics. A man such as Washington would have been considered a dreaded enemy of the party. Washington stressed hard work and education, not grievance and hand-outs. I wonder how many blacks are aware of their own history. The only choice they have is not the cancerous grievance-mongers that are so prevalent today.
Booker T. Washington was fresh off the old one. And he did something you just don’t see these days. He worked hard to unite the races instead of fomenting grievance. Instead of telling his race that they were owed a living by whitey, he told them they must work hard and get an education.
Had the South followed his lead (and many white Southerns did and joined in the cause) instead of following the Democrat Party-backed KKK and the entire attitude of marginalizing blacks, we would be a hundred years ahead of where we are now.
This biography is not quite as gripping as that of the one written by Frederick Douglass, but they don’t overlap. Douglass’ biography mainly covers his life as a slave. Washington’s takes a look at that unique post-war period when nobody knew what to do. There were millions of uneducated former slaves who somehow how to make it in a society that was also filled with its share of uneducated white people.
Washington was a practical man. His philosophy was that if members of his race got a good education and made themselves useful, the rest would take care of itself. He wanted economic opportunity and wasn’t as concerned with social equality. I think it was a smart move. We see that today. Things such as affirmative action simply breed resentment. But when someone of any race can fix your car or whatever, that is the road to putting little emphasis of race.
By the sheer will of his eloquence and good ideas, Booker T. Washington gained adherents from all races, north and south. It is a forgotten time. Now race and victimhood are the mainstay of Democrat Party politics. A man such as Washington would have been considered a dreaded enemy of the party. Washington stressed hard work and education, not grievance and hand-outs. I wonder how many blacks are aware of their own history. The only choice they have is not the cancerous grievance-mongers that are so prevalent today.
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