In the article The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 3 author Louis R. Harlan portrays Mr. Washington as a well-educated, respectable African-American whom strived to take hold of the opportunity of an early rising industrial nation. Mr. Washington took advantage of the South’s economic hardships encouraging them to give the freedmen the right to own property and have businesses. Furthermore, stating that these rights were more important than any political rights. Lastly, Mr. Washington seemed to play-on the racist heartstrings by verbally slighting African Americans stating that it was through some fault of their own that they were less educated and less prosperous than white American’s. Mr. Washington was a very wise man and he did make great
