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Booker T. Washington
born 1856
Hardy, Virginia
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Born enslaved on a small tobacco farm in the Virginia Piedmont, and freed there at nine when a Union officer read the Emancipation Proclamation aloud from the porch. The farm is a national monument, kept as the working landscape he was born into.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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