Representative selections from the great body of speeches and writings of the great abolitionist and statesman focus on the slave trade, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, suffrage for African-Americans, reconstruction in the South, and other issues as vital to the present as they were to the times in which Douglass lived. Unabridged republication of the edition published by International Publishers, New York, 1945.
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Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African-Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition.
