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  1. Sep 2018
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    Booker T. Washington Delivers the 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech
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    1. Mitchellws45 13 Sep 2018
      Cast down your bucket among these people who have, without strikes and labour wars, tilled your fields, cleared your forests, builded your railroads and cities, and brought forth treasures from the bowels of the earth, and helped make possible this magnificent representation of the progress of the South. Casting down your bucket among my people, helping and encouraging them as you are doing on these grounds, and to education of head, hand, and heart, you will find that they will buy your surplus land, make blossom the waste places in your fields, and run your factories.

      i feel like this is a call for union. Washington points out to blacks that the whites have been doing all this work for so long with no complaints and that they must they are not alone.

    2. Mitchellws45 13 Sep 2018
      Our greatest danger is that in the great leap from slavery to freedom we may overlook the fact that the masses of us are to live by the productions of our hands, and fail to keep in mind that we shall prosper in proportion as we learn to dignify and glorify common labour, and put brains and skill into the common occupations of life; shall prosper in proportion as we learn to draw the line between the superficial and the substantial, the ornamental gewgaws of life and the useful.

      this is very powerful. most of the freed slaves only knew how to farm and washington points out that freed slaves will have to learn to adjust too a new work environment.

    3. Mitchellws45 13 Sep 2018
      It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom.

      it seems like Washington all is asking for his race to simply be acknowledged and treated decently.

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