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In his autobiography, Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington relates what he knows of history: 'in context' and from his personal point of view. Mark Twain uses parody and fiction to express his views in Huckleberry Finn. Both criticize American society. Both held strong opinions concerning race, poverty and illiteracy. This is a 5 page paper that
examines the views of these two men through their writing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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From Slavery were two men of the same era. The words "in context" are heard a great deal when the topics of race, poverty and illiteracy are mentioned.
History is simply a retelling of facts until one puts it "into context". How that history is told is also very important. In his autobiography, Up From Slavery,
Booker T. Washington relates what he knows of history: "in context" and from his personal point of view. Mark Twain uses parody and fiction to express his views.
Both criticize American society. Both held strong opinions concerning race, poverty and illiteracy. Up From Slavery is a straightforward rendition of what was important to Booker T.
Washington throughput his life. Mr. Booker was an intelligent and articulate man who held views that were not always popular. Washington, a former slave, held the opinion that
slavery had been a unique institution that was perpetrated on American Blacks but that it was unwise to demand equal rights from the standpoint of being recently released from bondage.
He argued that it was for them to demonstrate equal status was justified and right. His thought was that assimilation into mainstream American society could be achieved gradually
through personal discipline, education, enterprise and self-reliance. The book was published in 1901 - almost a hundred years ago. To judge his words in retrospect gives a different
perspective, perhaps a clearer understanding of what he was trying to say. Racial integration was not a possibility for blacks of his generation. His viewpoint was that slavery
was a reality, an institution that had set certain parameters for growth and independence for blacks. The way to expand the parameters was to begin where you are and
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