Excerpt from A Joshua in the Camp, or the Life of Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee, Alabama It is no our purpose to cut down any tree in the forest that ours may appear the more towering; but we can. With a single stroke of the pen, show the fallacy of the claims to leadership of all those great men whose names have come to us in connection with the position which Douglass so ably filled for more than a quarter of a century; yet we admire each man for those accomplishments which have redounded to the good of the race. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.