Where was Booker T. Washington born?

Booker T. Washington was born in 1856 on a tobacco plantation in the small community of Hale's Ford, Virginia, located in Franklin County, in the southwestern part of the state. The plantation was owned by a man named James Burroughs, and Washington's mother, Jane, was Burroughs's slave. Washington and his family remained in slavery until 1865, when Union troops occupied the region and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation. He was nine years old at the time.
Washington describes his early childhood on the plantation in his autobiography, Up from Slavery. He states that he lived with his mother, brother, and sister in a small log cabin which also served as the plantation kitchen.

The cabin was without glass windows; it had only openings in the side which let in the light, and also the cold, chilly air of winter.

The family had no beds and slept on the dirt floor in "bundles of rags."
From this humble and inauspicious beginning, Washington grew up to become one of the most influential members of the early civil rights movement, fighting to build a strong, well-educated African American community in spite of the restrictions of the Jim Crow policies which discriminated against African Americans in nearly all areas of life.