Booker T Washington Up From The Slavery
Booker Taliaferro Washington was one of the most notorious African American Leaders during the end of the nineteenth century. Born a slave, from a slave mother and an unknown white father, he argued that the black people, after Emancipation Proclamation, should first improve themselves in the education field as well economically. In his autobiography “Up from the Slavery” the reader gets to know exactly the way Booker T. Washington understood the society of the United States in the mid ninetieth and early twentieth century. Even though born a slave, Booker T. Washington considered the slavery, a social institution, as established or standardized pattern of role – governed behavior. From the first chapter he sets the tone as what the reader