Hampton and its students
By: by two of its teachers, Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow ; with fifty cabin and plantaion songs arranged by Thomas P. Fenner
Contributors: Ludlow, Helen W. (Helen Wilhelmina); Fenner, Thomas P.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: History; African Americans; Education (Higher); Education; Music; Slavery; Songs and music; Folk music; Spirituals (Songs); Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.); Hampton Institute
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: 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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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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