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A 5 page essay that discusses and analyzes Booker T. Washington's autobiography. The writer argues that Washington brought rational discourse and reasoned compromise to a volatile era in race relations. He fully realized that a black man could not get a white man to consider his position unless he managed to get around the overt bigotry, antagonism and defensiveness. As his autobiography demonstrates, Washington excelled at this. The purpose of this text is to get white America to think, to consider the black perspective and to see that rights for African Americans benefited everyone. No additional sources cited.
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Washington was the acknowledged leader of Black America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was a volatile time. With the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South,
white Southerners were once more free to assert domination over freed blacks and they did so ruthlessly, convinced that blacks were incapable of anything except menial service. Whites enforced their
domination with frequent vigilante violence. Into this racial charged atmosphere, Washington brought rational discourse and reasoned compromise. He fully realized that a black man could not get a white man
to consider his position unless he managed to get around the overt bigotry, antagonism and defensiveness. As his autobiography demonstrates, Washington excelled at this. The purpose of this text is
to get white America to think, to consider the black perspective and to see that rights for African Americans benefited everyone. His text begins, logically, with his childhood, which
gives Washington a chance to describe the abject poverty and living conditions that slavery entailed. This description also includes the lure of education, which was forbidden to slaves. The first
few chapters swiftly pass from his boyhood and into the era of the Reconstruction, which was from 1867 to 1878. During this time, blacks frequently held public office, promoted by
Northerners who came South to take advantage of the social chaos that characterized the region in the aftermath of the Civil War. Excesses and abuses of power abounded and the
black race was blamed. Washington points out that "it was cruelly wrong in the central government, at the beginning of our freedom, to fail to make some provision for the
general education of our people...so that the people would be better prepared for the duties of citizenship" (Washington 83). Furthermore, Washington also points out the other political elements that were
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