His mother was Jane,a cook for the plantation.(slave) Sometimes to feed her childen, Jane would take a chicken or eggs from the master's flock and cook them during the night.
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Booker T. Washington's mother was a African slave, and his father was a white planter. So he is white and black!
There are a lot of books written by Booker T Washington. One of his books' name is 'The Future of the American Negro'.
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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