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Booker T. Washington was born a slave in Hale's Ford, Virginia.
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Abraham Lincoln frees the slaves. Booker was freed.
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Family moves to Malden.
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Booker enters the Hampton Institute in Hampton Virginia.
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He returns to Hampton to teach.
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Writes a biography called "Up From Slavery."
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Booker T. Washington died on November 14 1915.