Simply labeled orators of change these two men can only be described as believing accommodation versus reform. Up from Slavery, was written in hopes of helping newly freed slaves in America, to realize the importance of education and the need for industrial skills in the African American community in the 19th century. Booker T. Washington, who believed that African American's interests were best served by becoming farmers, land owners, and most importantly educated. He felt that work as a craftsman was an honest and honorable profession. Economic Security was a large building block, in his theory on African American advancement. Born of multi racial parents, his father was a white man and mother a slave cook. Booker T. Washington, was a man
