Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute

The desire to know more about Hampton and its students, on the part of the many friends of this Institution, has been one reason for publishing this little book. To them, and to the many other friends of the freedmen and of all the great interests of humanity who, we hope, will be made Hampton's friends by reading it, the authors wish to say that while the impressions it gives of the school and the life in and around it are in every sense their own, for which they are therefore alone responsible, the historical and statistical information contained in these pages is official, and may be relied upon as accurate.

For all of its illustrations, except the first and the last three, the book is indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Harper Bros., who have kindly allowed the use of their woodcuts.

M. F. A.
H. W. L.
Hampton, January 1, 1874

• Hampton School and Its Story
• A Teachers Story
• The Butler School
• Interviews of the School and the Cabin (Includes)
  • What is the Privileged Color
  • A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
  • Lorenzo Ivy's Life
  • How Aunt Sally Hugged the Old Flag
  • The Woman Question Again
  • The Richness of English
  • Lizzie Gibson's Story
  • Address of Welcome (Includes)
  • The Richness of English
  • An Early Effort
  • Timothy Smith's Life
  • The Sunny Side of Slavery
  • Father Parker's Story
  • Ku Klux Klan
  • Want to feel right about it
  • A Case of Incomplete Sanctification
  • Just where to put dem.
  • Life of George E. Stephens
  • Hunger and Thirst after Knowledge
• The Hampton Students in the North, Singing and Building
  • Concert Schedule
• Virginia Hall
• Appendix
  • Appeal
  • The Southern Workman
  • Speech of the Hon. William H. Ruffner
  • Letters from Public School Officers and others
  • Financial History of the Institute
  • Extract from the Catalogue of 1873-74
  • Report of Prof. R. D, Hitchcock and others
  • Notes 1-6
• List of Illustrations
  • Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
  • Walls of St. John's Church
  • Teachers' Home and Girls' Quarters
  • Chapel and Farm Manager's Home
  • Lion and John Solomon
  • Printing office
  • Assembly Room
  • Reading Room
  • Winter Quarters
  • Ball Club
  • Butler School House
  • Negro Cabin at Hampton
  • Virginia Hall New Building
  • Virginia Hall Second floor Plan
  • Virginia Hall Interior of Girls' Room

Notes About this Material

Source: Hampton and its students, by Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.

Notes about Online Publication: This manuscript has been ocr'd and edited. Many of the Native American words have been reproduced as clearly as online publication will allow us, but not all are exactly the way they were in the original work. The structure of this manuscript has been changed to allow better online presentation.

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