Adam Harris
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1,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5d ago
Adam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Washington would later write in the pages of The Atlantic in eighteen ninety six, the education he received at Hampton changed him.
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It quote caused me for the first time to realize what it meant to be a man instead of a piece of property.
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He was ready to proselytize, to spread the word on this industrial, practical education that wasn't just a mirror of what was popular.
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It wasn't just teaching French for the sake of saying that it did, or the piano, while expecting nothing but a future of poverty in return for its graduates.
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It was a functional education which would help black people less than a generation removed from slavery learn the skills they needed to advance.
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In eighteen eighty one, Washington went to the Deep South, to the Black Belt in Alabama to establish a school in Tuskegee.
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The school opened with one teacher, thirty students, and not a lick of property to speak of save a shanty and a church.
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But Washington was a savvy dealer.
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He coaxed donations from wealthy people in both the North and the South by preaching a philosophy of self-reliance.
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The students worked to build buildings on campus while they received an industrial education.
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And by the time he was writing in the Atlantic in 1896, that little college in Tuskegee had grown to 800 students, taught by 79 faculty members, spread across fourteen hundred acres of land, which housed thirty buildings.
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Washington's reputation grew alongside the institution, not least because of what he was willing to set aside to achieve his goal.
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His philosophy would have allowed, at least in the short term, the continuation of black Americans' second-class citizenship.
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Black people, Washington argued in his Atlantic essay, were to find their dignity through their industrial labors and the financial gains it brought them.
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He wrote that quote
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It is through the dairy farm, the truck garden, the trades, and commercial life largely, that the Negro is to find his way to the enjoyment of all his rights.
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Now, despite the critique that Washington School only taught black people to do the same jobs that they did during slavery, even his critics were forced to admire his brilliance and thrift and ability to make a tangible difference in the lives of black people in the black belt.
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Perhaps most prominent among those critics was W.
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