LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Get an education.
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Get a job.
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To be clean.
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To be a teacher.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Summary: Chapter III: The Struggle for an Education The school, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, offers students the opportunity to work for their room and board as they learn a trade or industry. Upon hearing of this school, Washington resolves to go to Hampton.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Dignity of Labor Perhaps the most developed theme in Up From Slavery is that of finding dignity in labor. Washington believes that slavery has given black Americans a distorted perception of labor-that it is a degrading rather than an uplifting and honorable practice.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Up from Slavery, Washington traces his journey from slave to educator. The early sections document his childhood as a slave and his efforts to get an education, and he directly credits his education with his later success as a man of action in his community and the nation.