![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The family, then free, relocated to Malden, West Virginia following the end of the Civil War. Booker later took a name from his stepfather, Washington Ferguson. His father, a white man, was absent from his life. Booker Taliaferro was born a slave on a small farm in Franklin County, Virginia. In particularly, they advocated for a "Negro school" with an emphasis on training for manual labor.Ī few years later, the man who was to become the foremost proponent of black advancement through productive labor was born on April 5, 1856. When the National Council of Colored People formed in Rochester, New York, in 1853, the equal rights they demanded began with better jobs. The policy which the abolitionists advanced for the South, freedom from slavery for blacks, may have sounded hollow to free blacks in the North, who were regularly discriminated against in all aspects of life, including employment. ![]()
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