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WASHINGTON, Booker T.

Working With The Hands.

First Edition of Booker T. Washington's Working With The Hands

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1904.

$750.00
Out of Stock Item Number: RRB-133459
* Custom Clamshell Boxes are hand made by the Harcourt Bindery upon request and take approximately 60 days to complete
First edition. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, tissue guard. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Booker T. Washington’s Working With the Hands (1904) functions as both a continuation and a practical elaboration of the ideas he first articulated in Up From Slavery. Written during his tenure as principal of the Tuskegee Institute, the work emphasizes the dignity of labor and the transformative power of industrial and agricultural education for African Americans in the post-Reconstruction South. Washington argues that self-reliance, skill acquisition, and economic productivity are essential foundations for racial uplift and social progress. By grounding his philosophy in the concrete experiences of Tuskegee’s students, who learned trades while constructing their own school buildings, Washington presents manual labor not as degrading but as a pathway to independence and respectability.
$750.00
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