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governor william mccorkle wrote memoirs, all those complaints booker t. washington had about this weren't true. he lived a very comfortable life. biographer liz harland said it is something he wanted for himself but also that life was important for him to prove, he used his life as an example to the nation at large, look at me. i am a successful person and happen to be african-american. he's using his life as an example, encouragement a blacks, an example of proof. and it is informative for him, because of frontier values that were here where it was not aristocratic like virginia but believe people were worth. it was a combination of all these things coming together is that gave him an idea of an american dream. >> we are at jq dickinson's saltworks in charleston, once the thought capital of the united states. up next we learn about the history of the salt industry and how dickinson is reviving it. >> it is a revival of family business. and sister started evaporating and crystallizing salt with 50 manufacturers in the region which made this little valley

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