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 | | General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, founder of Hampton Institute, was a pragmatic accommodationist who dedicated his life and considerable energies not to "radical Reconstruction"--the project of changing the minds, hearts, and, most importantly, social structures of the defeated South--but to educating newly freed Negroes to resume their inferior positions within the South's existing social structures. |
 | | Keenly aware of the Hampton Roads area's historical role as an original point of contact between the races (that is, for the United States), Armstrong envisioned a reunion of sorts-- as he wrote to his wife, Emma, in 1878: "Indians working beautifully--a milennial dawn--those races at peace..." (Lindsey 18). |
 | | Hampton's Indian program died with a whimper in 1923, when Caroline Andrus, the director of the program, resigned because she felt she could no longer prevent "amalgamation" between Indians and fls. |
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