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    Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery
    Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery
    Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery
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    Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery

    By Raja Sharma

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    “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington was first published in 1901. It is an autobiography that describes the author’s personal experiences.

    He rose from the position of a slave child during the American Civil War and became a famous educationalist and social reformer.

    The book very descriptively provides the details of the impediments that the author had to overcome to be educated at the new Hampton University.

    Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateAug 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311771056
    Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery
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    Raja Sharma

    Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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      Ready Reference Treatise: Up From Slavery

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      Raja Sharma

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington was first published in 1901. It is an autobiography that describes the author’s personal experiences.

      He rose from the position of a slave child during the American Civil War and became a famous educationalist and social reformer.

      The book very descriptively provides the details of the impediments that the author had to overcome to be educated at the new Hampton University.

      Having been educated, he started establishing vocational schools, among which The Tuskegee Institute in Alabama is the most notable.

      He worked day and night to help the black people and the other underprivileged people to learn useful and marketable skills to raise themselves in the society.

      In the present book, the author also describes the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who had helped him in educating the blacks and Native Americans.

      The author describes how he struggled hard to instill health, manners, breeding, and a feeling of dignity to his pupils from the underprivileged groups.

      The author while working for the underprivileged students generally emphasized on mixing academic subjects with learning a trade.

      Washington argues that by educating the blacks and making them learn useful skills, he wanted to reassure the white community that educating the black and underprivileged people was going to be useful to the American society and country.

      The book was first published as a series in a Christian newspaper The Outlook in 1900 in New York. The author had purposefully decided to have it published in the form of a series because in the process of writing he was able to get comments, criticism, and requests from his readers. By that he was able to more easily adapt his writing to different groups of readers.

      Throughout his life, Washington remained a controversial figure. Some of his views were criticized even by W. E. B. Du Bois. However, Up From Slavery became a bestseller and continued to be one of the most popular African American autobiographies until the publication of Malcolm X.

      It was also declared one of the bestselling books of the 20th century. The author’s accommodationist views have often been criticized, but the book has generally been acclaimed. An earlier book titled The Story of My Life presents a little different story.

      Most of the readers of the book were generally the black people and its distribution was limited to a subscription market that covered rural parts of the south.

      In the modern world, Up From Slavery is considered to be one of the best autobiographies written about a black author and social reformers, keeping the slavery and the rise of the blacks in the background.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      The book tells the life story of Booker T. Washington. The story covers the time period from his early childhood to his successful career in the later years.

      The book has been written in the first person. There is also the inclusion of excerpts from letters and newspaper editorials about the author’s work.

      Booker T. Washington was born as a slave on a plantation in Virginia. Right from his childhood, he had a deep desire to be educated. When the slaves were freed, he got an opportunity to educate himself. First of all, he taught himself to read.

      During most of his boyhood, he worked in a salt furnace and a coal mine. Whenever possible, he attended school, but it was not always regular. When he came to know about the Hampton Institute, he got determined to attend that school.

      That was the first school in the region open to people of all races where students were allowed to work in exchange for board.

      He worked for a brief period of time at the home of Mrs. Viola Ruffner. Then he went to Hampton Institute where his excellent training and good work habits began to show results. He got the permission to enroll and he got hired as a janitor.

      Washington met General Armstrong at Hampton. Armstrong remained his lifelong friend and mentor. He gives the credit of industrial education to General Armstrong. He began to learn about eating habits and manners. He learned to eat with a tablecloth and a napkin. He also started bathing, brushing the teeth, and using sheets regularly.

      His college fee was paid by donors, but he continued to work hard during the academic year and during the summer vacations to pay for his board and other necessary things he needed. He paid for his books and clothes from the money he earned.

      During his time in Hampton, he learned the most important lesson of his life. He came to understand that the happiest people are those who do the most for others, and also learned that one of the best things education could do is to teach a student to love labor and hard work.

      Having graduated from college, he went back to his home town of Malden, VA. He started teaching in his community. He would teach day and night and prepared many students, including his own brothers, to attend Hampton.

      He also studied in Washington, D.C. for eight months. He saw that most of the students there were not self-reliant because they had not learned to help themselves through industrial work or training. Most of the blacks in

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