Reading a good storybook may be a relaxing pastime, but it also has long-lasting effects on the way we live. Reading and listening to stories are one of the best aspects of life. Children love reading stories. And this is what the present book 'Up From Slavery : An Autobiography' in our series 'Great Illustrated Classics' intends to do
Booker T. Washington
Booker was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved African-American woman on the plantation of James Burroughs in southwest Virginia, near Hale\'s Ford in Franklin County. He never knew the day, month, and year of his birth,[7] but the year on his headstone reads 1856.[8] Nor did he ever know his father, said to be a white man who resided on a neighboring plantation. The man played no financial or emotional role in Washington\'s life.[9]
From his earliest years, the slave boy was known simply as \"Booker,\" with no middle or surname, in the practice of the time.[10] His mother, her relatives and his siblings struggled with the demands of slavery. He later recalled that
Booker T. Washington
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