Item #17830 Hampton and its Students Documents One of the first HBCUs in 1874. Hampton African American HBCU.
Hampton and its Students Documents One of the first HBCUs in 1874
Hampton and its Students Documents One of the first HBCUs in 1874
Hampton and its Students Documents One of the first HBCUs in 1874

Hampton and its Students Documents One of the first HBCUs in 1874

First Edition

[HBCU] [Hampton School] Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. Hampton and its Students by Two of its Teachers. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First edition, 255 pages; beautiful folding wood-engraved frontispiece of the school and its grounds, 16 wood-engraved illustrations in text, 5 full-page illustrations, original gilt-stamped green cloth boards. The first book on the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, founded in 1868 just 7 years before this first edition, for the education of freed slaves, the book describes at length relations between freed slaves and northern whites. Among the school's most famous students was Booker T. Washington. Inscribed to a "Miss Mary Loury, from her friend E.R.M." Some shelfwear, bumped corners, boards lightly scuffed. Tight, clean textblock. Overall in very good condition. A beautifully illustrated book documenting one of the earliest and most important institutes of higher learning for African Americans.

Item #17830

Price: $285.00