Please join us for a workshop on Tuesday, April 29 from 11am-12:30pm. Participants do not need to stay for the entire time – feel free to drop in late or leave early!
In 1869, Samuel Chapman Armstrong (Williams 1862), the son of Hawaiian missionaries, founded the Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School (now Hampton University) as a school intended to integrate Black and Indigenous children into production. The development of Hampton would prove quite significant in early colonial education, as it would later serve as the primary educational model for Native American Boarding Schools, such as the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and travel as far as the Hilo Manual Labor School in Hawai’i and the Manila Trade School in the Philippines. Participants in this workshop will examine materials from the College Archives that document the complex history of Hampton, including its pathways to development and its significance in the construction of American colonial education networks. The objects that we encounter together in this workshop will serve as the basis for a conversation about anti-blackness, settler colonialism, and the inextricably linked histories of Williams College and Hampton University.
This program is jointly presented by Special Collections and the Davis Center.
We will meet in Sawyer Library, Room 452 (This room is reachable by elevator). To help preserve fragile documents, please do not bring pens, food, or liquids. There are lockers outside the room where you can place your belongings. Thank you!