Booker T. Washington
educator · Virginia, USA · Alabama · 1856–1915
Born a slave on a Virginia plantation and freed at the end of the Civil War. He went to school while working at a salt furnace and in a coal mine, and at twenty-five founded the Tuskegee school in Alabama, which he led for the rest of his life.
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1901
I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.
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