He went on to study at Wayland Seminary in Washington, D.C., but had so impressed Chapman that he was invited to return to Hampton as a teacher in 1879. In 1872, Washington walked the 500 miles to Hampton, where he was an excellent student and received high grades. Chapman had been a leader of Black troops for the Union during the Civil War and was dedicated to improving educational opportunities for African Americans. It was at a second job in a local coalmine where he first heard two fellow workers discuss the Hampton Institute, a school for formerly enslaved people in southeastern Virginia founded in 1868 by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman. In Malden, Washington was only allowed to go to school after working from 4-9 AM each morning in a local salt works before class. Soon after, she married Washington Ferguson, a free Black man. Jane moved her family to Malden, West Virginia. At the close of the Civil War, all the enslaved people owned by James and Elizabeth Burroughs-including 9-year-old Booker, his siblings, and his mother-were freed. His father, a white man, was unknown to Washington. His mother was a cook for the plantation’s owner. Washington’s Parents and Early Lifeīooker Taliaferro Washington was born on Apin a hut in Franklin County, Virginia.
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