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UP FROM SLAVERY

Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery
Introduction
Born a slave during the mid-nineteenth century, Booker t. Washington became one of the most influential African-American figures after the civil war. From being a slave, he has gone through hindrances in order to acquire a decent education at Hampton University. As a person who was fiercely engrossed at the thought of attending a school during his young slavery days, he recognized the value of education and learning a skill for the empowerment of the black Americans. It is for this reason that he facilitated the establishment of the Tuskegee Institute in Continue reading...

“Out of Africa,” by Isak Dinesen, is a grand, sweeping, epic tale of one woman’s fully coming of age in a land that, by rights, might have felt foreign to her, but into which she fits, as she says in her own words, “Here I am, where I ought to be.”(Dinesen 4). The book is autobiographical, but she has left out of it many aspects that one might have expected her to tell, such the details of her love affairs with the Baron Bror Blixen (to whom she was married) and with Denys Finch-Hatton, and focused instead Continue reading...

Many history resources have continuously highlighted the amount of suffering that African Americans have endured from the time when the first record of Africans was recorded in the Jamestown colony. The following years indeed became a testament to their collective struggle as they were subjected to various forms of discriminatory treatment and laws. However, their history should not be exclusively viewed in this dark and seemingly hopeless perspective. Through the lens of black struggle, it can be seen that African American history is characterized by achievement and victory despite the challenges and problems faced by the people during the period of 1620-1915.

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