Booker T. Washington spent his early childhood in slavery. Following emancipation, Washington (like many Blacks) felt that an education was the best way to improve his living standards, so he wanted to educate himself to improve his life.
<span>The merchants embraced
Islam, because it gave them a very important point of union with the
clients and partners who had this religion, facilitating trade in Muslim
towns. The monarchs, by belonging to Islam, in the same
way as merchants, took advantage of religion to lay the foundations of
alliances; and also because Islam taught them how they should be, and how to behave. <span>The
educators embraced Islam because the Muslims were in favor of
education, they supported it and that favored the support of schools and
teaching (including the study of Islam).</span></span>
