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Booker T. Washington

“Up From Slavery” inspired readers
across the nation. People of this time had realized that they could
no longer expect support from the federal government, in their
struggle for dignity and opportunity in the south, so many blacks
concluded that self-reliance, self-help, and racial solidarity were
their last best hopes. So, people saw as
their champion and adopted his autobiography, up from slavery.
In Franklin County, Virginia Washington was given birth
too. He was raised as a slave until after the civil war when he and
his family were declared free. Washington does not no know
much about his family history other than his ancestors, form his
mothers side, suffered in ...

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and leave their plantations either for a
couple of days or weeks in order to really feel free.
As Washington grew older he gets a job working at a
salt-furnace, working with his stepfather, he asked if he can go to
school, his stepfather said no that your responsibilities are here
now. Washington decided, that he would learn something anyway
and applied himself into mastering the blue-beck speller. This
wasn’t helping so he made arrangements for night school with a
teacher and felt that he learned more than any other kids. Then
Washington gets a job working at a coal mine, while working their
he hear good things about Hampton Normal and Agricultural
Institute. So he decides to keep working at the coal mine for a
couple of months until he finds a new opening and he then gets
hired working for Mrs. Ruffiner as a servant. He and she became
very close friends who could trust each other.
Washington saves up some money and decides he wants to
try to get ...

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