| | 1 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Up From Slavery: An Autobiography / By Booker T. Washington  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | 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.
As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads
post-office called Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do
not know the month or the day. The earliest impressions I can now
recall are of the plantation and the slave quarters — the latter
being the part of the plantation where the slaves had their cabins. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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