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Hampton and its students

Armstrong, M. F. (Mary Frances) -1903 (Author). Fenner, Thomas P. (Added Author). Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina) -1924 (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) (Added Author). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. (Added Author).

Summary: 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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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    Electronic data (1 file : ca. 450 kilobytes).
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  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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General Note:
Text scanned (OCR) by Andrew Leiter. Images scanned by Andrew Leiter. Text encoded by Sarah Reuning and Jill Kuhn.
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.
Title from electronic title page.
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Transcribed from: Hampton and its students / by two of its teachers, Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow ; with fifty cabin and plantation songs arranged by Thomas P. Fenner, in charge of Musical Department at Hampton. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. 256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Includes songs with music: p. [171]-255.
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Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title.
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