Hampton and its students
Opened in 1868 to serve freedmen living near Hampton, Virginia, the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) was one of the early success stories in the struggle to educate former slaves in the South. Armstrong, Ludlow, and Fenner seek to convey in this book the story of Ha...
| Main Author: | Armstrong, M. F. d. 1903. |
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| Corporate Author: | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) |
| Other Authors: | Ludlow, Helen W. d. 1924., Fenner, Thomas P., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. |
| Format: | Online Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Chapel Hill, N.C.] :
Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
2000
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| Edition: | Electronic ed. |
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Opened in 1868 to serve freedmen living near Hampton, Virginia, the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) was one of the early success stories in the struggle to educate former slaves in the South. Armstrong, Ludlow, and Fenner seek to convey in this book the story of Hampton and its students to the public, and to justify the ideals upon which the school was founded. The long term goal of Hampton's efforts was not merely to prepare its students for manual labor but to educate them and thus improve them as citizens. Ludlow's contribution to the story of Hampton is a series of testimonies, portraits, speeches, student journal entries, and letters that attempt to alter the public's general perception of former slaves and to document the qualities of the students enrolled at Hampton. Also included are are Fenner's arrangements of fifty spirituals that he collected from Hampton's student body. |
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| Item Description: |
Title from electronic title page. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community. Text scanned (OCR) by Andrew Leiter. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Sarah Reuning and Jill Kuhn. |
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Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web. |
