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Quotation from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

“I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.”

Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #2376)

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The plain opening sentence of the autobiography.

Citation: "I was born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia." — Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, Chapter I (Project Gutenberg #2376). (id up-from-slavery-q1)

Portrait: UpFromSlavery cover, Booker T. Washington / Doubleday & Co., Public domain.

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