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Booker T. WashingtonUp From Slavery
Booker T. WashingtonNonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1901A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
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What continuities exist between Washington’s argument in Up From Slavery and the present-day discourse on racial justice?
Compare Washington’s speeches transcribed in Up From Slavery to the rest of the book. Does his tone, word choice, content, etc. differ between his speeches and his writing?
Compare Up From Slavery to W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk. How do the two writers differ in how they write about the experience of Black people in 19th-century America? Do they share any similarities?
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