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Booker T Washington Use An Analogy Of A Boat Seeking Water

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1) When Booker T. Washington said, "cast down your bucket where you are," he wanted to ask for help of Southern whites by using an analogy of a boat seeking water. A stranded boat sees another boat approaching and asks for help and water. With this analogy he is asking Southern white men to help "better their condition" and, "a chance in the commercial world." Washington hopes that because African Americans have been so faithful to them in cleaning their houses, raised their children, fielding their crops, that now they should feel some sort of sympathy and help them make small, not big, advances in society.
The method he proposes for this to become possible is by 'separate but equal' or when he says, " in all thing that are purely social