Been on this for more than 10 hours, trying to answer 4 measly paragraph questions, Please help me! ON Booker t washington up from slavery book read it 3 times and still don't understand
2006-09-04 13:53:41 · 5 answers · asked by jason 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I haven't read the book, but I imagine the former slaves did not know how to handle money, how to read, how to run their own farm without direction from someone else. Do you remember anything in the book about those things?
2006-09-04 14:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, you should realize that this depends on your idea or definition of "practical." As the emphasis of Booker T's ideas for progress for his people seems based in agriculture, machinery, and trade, I'm going with that understanding of practicalty.
Here are a few things to get you started. About 7 pages or so, in to ch 1 of Up from Slavery, there is a passage which explains some of those difficulties. Booker T sees them applying to both whites and blacks, as a product of the institution of slavery, but you can definitely use them in support of your argument. So, one example might be that slaves who were not practical were as unable to perform necessary skills of basic repair and maintenance as were their owners. Booker T. Washington writes, " The slaves , of course, had little personal interest in the life of the plantation, and their ignorance prevented them from learning how to do things.... As a result of the system, fences were out of repair, gates were hanging half off the hinges...etc.
The most persuasive argument explaining the drawbacks comes in ch.14 in Booker T's address. In this he explains that the drawback of ex-slaves who weren't practical was actually the failure to recognize that practicality was the source by which dignity was to be obtained. He says,"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top..."
Hope some of this helps. Good luck!!!
2006-09-05 00:59:08 · answer #2 · answered by diasporas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i cant answer your question but ther is a couple of web sites that on slavery that might be able to help i cant rember the sites i went on right now sorry.
2006-09-04 21:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by Gregg M 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Try looking him up on the internet. You obviously have a computer now get to it and use it.
2006-09-04 21:08:59 · answer #4 · answered by smile4u 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Where are your parents? Helping you with your homework is their job.
2006-09-04 21:58:09 · answer #5 · answered by Jazmanana 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋