Faced with no money, no resources, and no education, Washington was forced to work in the salt-mines at the age of 10. However, the difficulty of Washington’s early life did not end with his Emancipation. This forced labor came to an end upon Emancipation in 1865, and his mother moved the family to meet her husband ( Washington’s stepfather), an escaped slave, in West Virginia. On the plantation, Washington was subjected to hard labor every day as a young child and performed tasks like cleaning the yard, bringing water to the slaves in the field, and delivering corn to be milled. Washington begins his autobiography by describing the squalor of his childhood as a slave in Franklin County, VA. Washington, one of America’s most famous conservative educational philosophers, recounts his rise from slavery to establish the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school for black Americans.
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