our freedom began at the end of the civil war. that was thirty years ago. we started with a few quilts, pumpkins and chickens. today we make new tools for farming. we make carriages. we make steam-engines work better. we print newspapers. we write books. we create art. we run drug stores. we have banks.
what kind of freedom is booker t. washington talking about in this paragraph?

The type of freedom that Booker T. Washington is talking about in this speech is the freedom to work.

Explanation:

Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) became an important leader in the black community in the southern United States. He was born into slavery but became a successful businessman and entrepreneur and dedicated a lot of his time to becoming the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants.

Booker T. Washington is also controversial because he called for black progress through running their own businesses and education without direct confrontation or resistance to the Jim Crow laws that were being instituted in post-Reconstruction states in the South. The famous speech where he voiced this was given in 1895 and called "the Atlanta Compromise."