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an intelligent producer as well as a consumer.
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“an intelligent producer as well as a consumer.”

Booker T. Washington

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The Future of the American Negro
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1899
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Washington argues that post-emancipation advancement requires access to skills and productive economic roles, not consumption or formal status alone.

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The Future of the American Negro, Chapter III; Project Gutenberg #26507. This is a deliberately short excerpt from Washington’s 1899 argument about becoming a producer as well as a consumer; historical racial context is retained in the source note.

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