Publisher's Synopsis
A special edition with 22 photographs and Washington's The Story of Slavery.
Character Building is a book published by Booker T. Washington in 1902. It is a collection of talks on self-development given to students and faculty at the Tuskegee Institute he was leading. Mr. Washington's habit has for many years been to deliver a practical, straightforward address to the students of Tuskegee Institute on Sunday evening. These addresses have had much to do with the building up of the character of his race, for they are very forcible explanations of character building. The speaker has put into them his whole moral earnestness, his broad common-sense and, in many places, his eloquence. Many of Mr. Washington's friends have said that some of these addresses are the best of his utterances. This volume is made up of selections from these addresses chosen by Mr. Washington himself.
The Story of Slavery was published in 1913. It follows the arrival of the first slaves in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 through their usage across the South of the United States.
