Slavery versus security - the technology of controlling humans

The book, first published serially in The Outlook magazine in 1900, is the autobiography of one of the most controversial figures in American history, Booker T. Washington. The work chronicles Washington''s rise from a slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation to his long tenure as president of the famous Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Booker T. Washington was instrumental in helping to establish schools specializing in vocational training for minorities in order to advance their standing in society by acquiring marketable skills. Washington''s message was one step forward for African Americans through economic empowerment because, as he put it, "the individual who can do something that the world expects of him will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race." His contributions to self-empowerment added dramatic force to the struggle for He stood for racial equality and will forever be remembered in the annals of American history.