Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1 - 9780252002427

Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1The Autobiographical Writings\nAuthor(s): Booker T Washington, Louis R. Harlan, John W. Blassingame\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252002427, 978-0252002427\nSynopsis\nHere is the first of fifteen volumes in a project C. Vann Woodward called \""the single most important research enterprise now under way in the field of American black history.\"" Volume 1 contains Washington's Up from Slavery, one of the most widely read American autobiographies, in addition to The Story of My Life and Work, and six other autobiographical writings. Together, the selections provide readers with a first step toward understanding Washington and his immense impact. These writings reveal the moral values he absorbed from his mid-nineteenth-century experiences and teachers. As importantly, they present him to the world as he wished to be seen: as the black version of the America.