Publisher	Laxmi Publications
Publication Year	2017
ISBN-13	9788131809471
ISBN-10	8131809471
Binding	Paperback
Number of Pages	286 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	20 x 14 x 4
Subject	School Textbooks

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