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Which detail about the early days
of the Tuskegee Normal School
appears only in this
autobiography?
The school was moved to the site of an
old plantation.
In this excerpt from his autobiography, Booker T.
Washington describes the early days of the Tuskegee
Normal School in 1881.
About three months after the opening of the school, and at
a time when we were in the greatest anxiety about our
work, there came into market for sale an old and
abandoned plantation which was situated about a mile
from the town of Tuskegee. The mansion house-or "big
house," as it would have been called-which had been
occupied by the owners during slavery, had been burned.
After making a careful examination of the place, it seemed
to be just the location that we wanted.
Washington wanted students to build
the new school.
The original school burned down soon
after it opened.
Washington was nervous about the
school succeeding.
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