Southern Workman

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Southern Workman was a monthly journal published in the United States by the at Hampton Institute. The press was founded in 1871[citation needed] and the Southern Workman began publication in 1872.[1] For a time it was known as the Southern Workman and Hampton School Record.[2] According to the the publication "published news and information about Hampton, its faculty, and its graduates, as well as lectures, articles, book reviews, and essays on topics in African American and American Indian history and education."[3] Many volumes of the Southern Workman are available online.[4] Issues are also in the collections of various libraries.[5][6][7]


Contributors included columnist Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne, , Natalie Curtis, Anna Evans Murray, Jane E. Davis,[3] Julian Bagley, Charles Holston Williams, and Della Irving Hayden.

In 1900, the journal was edited by J. E. Davis (Jane E. Davis) who shifted into the role full-time and expanded the size and scope of the publication. Her series of articles on early Eastern Virginia was published in 1907 as Round about Jamestown: Historical Sketches of the Lower Virginia Peninsula.[3] Hampton Institute Press published General Samuel Chapman Armstrong's 1913 founder's day address. It also published Then and now at Hampton Institute, 1868-1902 in 1902.[8]

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  1. ^ "Bulletin". U.S. Government Printing Office. August 23, 1924 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Smith, John David (August 22, 2009). Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195167795.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-516779-5 – via www.oxfordreference.com.
  3. ^ a b c "Dictionary of Virginia Biography - Jennie Eliza Davis Biography". www.lva.virginia.gov.
  4. ^ Armstrong, S. C. (August 22, 1872). "The Southern workman": 68 v – via Hathi Trust. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "The Southern workman". The Southern Workman. August 22, 1900. OCLC 9911105 – via Open WorldCat.
  6. ^ "The Southern Workman". Hampton Institute. August 22, 1915 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ https://www.historyleaks.wordpress.com/2014/01/04/the-southern-workman/
  8. ^ "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute : founded by General S.C. Armstrong in 1868, Hampton, Virginia, H.B. Frissell, principal". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.


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