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from Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) Hosted by Columbia University

Booker T. Washington House Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856, and labored on the Burroughs tobacco farm in Virginia. Nine years later, he and his family were freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation and moved to West Virginia, where he worked in the salt mines while attending school.

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