In the years before Booker T. Washington’s freedom began, he was a young boy living on a plantation with his mother. In his autobiography, Up From Slavery, he mentions his early yearn for education saying “I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise.” After the abolition of slavery, Washington’s family moved to West Virginia and he began to work in salt and coal mines. His stepfather’s decision to make him work instead of study disappointed him. It “seemed

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