Our freedom began at the end of the Civil War. That was thirty years ago. We started with a few quilts, pumpkins and chickens. Today we make new tools for farming. We make carriages. We make steam-engines work better. We print newspapers. We write books. We create art. We run drug stores. We have banks.

What kind of freedom is Booker T. Washington talking about in this paragraph?

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Jada Foley

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20 May, 18:01

Our freedom began at the end of the Civil War. That was thirty years ago. We started with a few quilts, pumpkins and chickens. Today we make new tools for farming. We make carriages. We make steam-engines work better. We print newspapers. We write books. We create art. We run drug stores. We have banks.

What kind of freedom is Booker T. Washington talking about in this paragraph?

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Helena Trevino · Answer 1

Answer: He was talking about the freedom of black people.

Explanation: Booker T. Washington was a remarkable African-American leadership that reached a prominent position in the history of the formation of the thinking of the black population of the United States. His biography becomes more interesting because he was born a slave and won the admiration of many influential figures of that admittedly racist society. It was a time when Southern whites collected the traces of economic destruction left by the American Civil War and debated how to proceed with the economy without the slave labor on which they were so dependent.