Negative Effects Of Booker T Washington On Slavery

The Positive Aspect of Slavery Booker T. Washington is a historic figure during the time of slavery. Washington found that his path was not determined by his current situation yet, by his own aspirations. During one of the most dynamic times in history, Booker was determined to find a transformation for African-Americans. Atypically, his critics claimed he would keep the colored people down and he would slow down improvements. Booker had many accomplishments, such as writing a narrative about his life during this time period. Washington refused to see slavery has a hostile, brutal, and immoral situation, his perspective on life is still relevant to African-Americans and to all people who are determined to make a good pathway for themselves. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in Hales Ford, Virginia, around 1856, though there are no birth certificates of his actual birth. His mother was a cook and his father, a unknown white man. Washington worked during his childhood but valued family and education since a young boy. Though Washington never acknowledged his father, Booker learned a lot from his mother, lifelong lessons of
Washington asked the white people for support not equality. Booker T. Washington believed that African-Americans would not make it any where in society if they focused solely on equality. Washington wanted to have blacks trained for society and real life situations; he thought that this would improve black’s lives greatly. Instead of blacks being looked at as solely useless individuals, they would gain knowledge of real world situations and how to handle them. He did not see white and black as a difference anyways, he wanted all people to be fairly the same. Washington wanted job-education for blacks so they could learn how to do their jobs and do it properly. No more whites teaching blacks how to ‘do their job,’ but for blacks to already have the knowledge they needed to be their own bosses or someone else’s