Up from slavery : authoritative text, contexts, and composition history, criticism /
edited by William L. Andrews.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Norton, c1996.
- xi, 262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- A Norton critical edition .
- Norton critical edition. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The text of Up from slavery. Contexts and composition. Letters about Up from slavery (1899-1900) : Lyman Abbott to Booker T. Washington, Booker T. Washington to John A. Hertel, Lyman Abbott to Booker T. Washington, Booker T. Washington to Lyman Abbott -- Review of Up from slavery -- From An exemplary citizen / An African American book review -- My larger education / Criticism. Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and others / Radicals and conservatives / Booker T. Washington : an interpretation / Booker T. Washington in biographical perspective / Casting down / Autobiography and Washington / Booker T. Washington's mastery of form / The representation of slavery and the rise of Afro-American literary realism, 1865-1920 / W.D. Howells -- Booker T. Washington -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- Kelly Miller -- August Meier -- Louis R. Harlan -- Sidonie smith -- James M. Cox -- Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Willam L. Andrews.
Presents an annotated edition of the autobiography of Booker T. Washington, a man born in slavery who became an influential African-American leader, and founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Includes related correspondence, reviews, and critical essays.
0393967255 (pbk.) 9780393967258 (pbk.)
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GB96-31267
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915. Washington, Booker T.