Booker T. Washington urged blacks to accept discrimination “for the time being” and concentrate on elevating themselves through hard work and material prosperity. He believed that learning a craft, industrial and farming skills, then enterprise and be thrifty while patiently waiting for things to change.
This must seem strange to us today, but they were significantly difficult to transition from slavery to freedom at the time.
As the war began, enslaved people paid close attention to the conflict and how their owners reacted to it for fear that their slave owners would uproot and separate their families relocating further South. Some slave owners responded to the war by selling their slaves and moving out of the war-torn South. Many enslaved
This must seem strange to us today, but they were significantly difficult to transition from slavery to freedom at the time.
As the war began, enslaved people paid close attention to the conflict and how their owners reacted to it for fear that their slave owners would uproot and separate their families relocating further South. Some slave owners responded to the war by selling their slaves and moving out of the war-torn South. Many enslaved