Booker T. Washington was a slave because he lived in the time frame in which African-Americans weren't treated as equals to the whites. He was born into slavery by his mother, Jane. His mother was an enslaved black woman who worked on the Bourrough's Plantation in southwest Virginia. Booker's siblings and mother was freeded of slavery after the Civil was, formally by the 13th Amendment.
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Actually Booker was not a slave.He was born to a slave women.Of course he worked very hard to earn a living in the early years; but he was not a slave.
Booker T. Washington's mother was a African slave, and his father was a white planter. So he is white and black!
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BOOKER T. WASHINGTON RECIEVED THE AWARD for being an incredible civil rights leader
Yes. Booker T. Washington is a muckraker, but I prefer to call him a reformer of the Progressive Era.