Story of the Negro
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An account of Africans and Americans of African descent before, during and after slavery. This book goes on to focus on the history of Atlantic slave trade and how slaves were exploited in North America, before detailing how slavery came to be abolished there and the effect it had on African American population who found themselves finally free.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African-American community. Born into slavery in south-western Virginia, he was freed following Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamtion of 1865 and became a teacher. He came to prominence with a speech in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895 and advocated cooperation rather than confrontation as the most effective way of overcoming racism and achieving equality for African Americans.