-was a slave in his early years; this gave him humility to do the job of sweeping the recitation room-worked for Mrs. Viola Ruffner and learned the importance of doing things in a timely manner and seeing what needed to be done and doing it-worked for a captain unloading cargo from a ship; learned more humility by sleeping under a sidewalk every night-all of his experiences led him to Hampton by train and reminded him that he was not above sweeping in order to join the institute

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