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Article: Educating the disfranchised and Disinherited: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1839-1893.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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By Robert Francis Engs. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. Pp. xx, 207. $32.50, ISBN 1-57233-051-1.)
The history of education is, in a sense, intellectual history from the bottom up. Its relative neglect by new social and political historians threatens to foreclose our understanding of the opportunities and constraints on the mental life of the mass of Americans: workers, women, farmers, and freedpeople. Few educators had as extensive an influence over a new school constituency as did Samuel Chapman Armstrong, the founder of the Hampton Institute in Virginia. Locally, Armstrong wasn't just "the founder," he was "The Founder." His character, physical ...