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Essay Galaxy - Booker T. Washington
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 Booker T. Washington 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 the middle passage of the slave ship
while being conveyed from Africa to America.
Washington and his family lived ....
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