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Up from Slavery - An Autobiography (Paperback)
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Up from Slavery - An Autobiography (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Slavery and Abolition
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The details of Mr. Washington's early life, as frankly set down in
"Up from Slavery," do not give quite a whole view of his education.
He had the training that a coloured youth receives at Hampton,
which, indeed, the autobiography does explain. But the reader does
not get his intellectual pedigree, for Mr. Washington himself,
perhaps, does not as clearly understand it as another man might.
The truth is he had a training during the most impressionable
period of his life that was very extraordinary, such a training as
few men of his generation have had. To see its full meaning one
must start in the Hawaiian Islands half a century or more ago.*
There Samuel Armstrong, a youth of missionary parents, earned
enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped
with this small sum and the earnestness that the undertaking
implied, he came to Williams College when Dr. Mark Hopkins was
president. Williams College had many good things for youth in that
day, as it has in this, but the greatest was the strong personality
of its famous president. Every student does not profit by a great
teacher; but perhaps no young man ever came under the influence of
Dr. Hopkins, whose whole nature was so ripe for profit by such an
experience as young Armstrong. He lived in the family of President
Hopkins, and thus had a training that was wholly out of the common;
and this training had much to do with the development of his own
strong character, whose originality and force we are only beginning
to appreciate.
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