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Booker T. Washington:Up from Slavery, Excerpt 113

Booker T. Washington《Up from Slavery》· Up from Slavery · Leadership

In the midst of all the difficulties which I encountered in getting the little school started, and since then through a period of nineteen years, there are two men among all the many friends of the school in Tuskegee upon whom I have depended constantly for advice and guidance; and the success of the undertaking is largely due to these men, from whom I have never sought anything in vain. I mention them simply as types. One is a white man and an ex-slaveholder, Mr. George W. Campbell; the other is a black man and an ex-slave, Mr. Lewis Adams. These were the men who wrote to General Armstrong for a teacher.

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Locator:Excerpt 113 · Verified:2026-10-19 · Verification:Short excerpt

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