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A Rise of Determination
Up From Slavery illustrates Booker T. Washington as the public figure often invoked his own past to illustrate his belief in the dignity of work. "There was no period of my life that was devoted to play,"(p. 3) Washington once wrote, "From the time that I can remember anything, almost everyday of my life has been occupied in some kind of labour" (p. 4). This concept of self-reliance born of hard work was the cornerstone of Washington's social philosophy. Washington thought that to succeed in life any man black or white needed first to be educated to the conditions of the world today, secondly to hold enough all around skill, and thirdly knowing and loving labor (p. 140).
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in the year of 1858 or 1859. Washington reflected that ever since he could remember, “if I accomplished nothing else in life, I would in some way get enough education to enable me to read common books and newspapers” (p.14). As Washington’s......

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