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Title: Catalogue of the Hampton Normal & Agricultural Institute, at Hampton, Virginia, for the academical year ..
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Subjects: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
Publisher: Hampton : Institute Steam Press
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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tory. But little scientific apparatus has been provided, and there are nocollections for illustrating Natural History. The Library greatly needs standard works in all its departments.A Reading-room has been provided in connection with it, and is fur-nished with a variety of journals and periodicals. The Library com-mittee of the Trustees is especially charged with the duty of collect-ing history and incidents of the war, and full accounts of all national,stale, and philanthropic efforts for education in the South. Co-op-eration is invited. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES.* Whatever is illustrative of manners, customs, character, and ofinteresting localities abroad, is useful as a means of more thoroughinstruction. Missionaries and others in foreign lands can do ourcause good service by helping in this department. Those so disposedare invited to correspond with the Secretary of the Trustees, withthe view of making the way clear for the procuring and transmissionof materials for this department.
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ASSEMBLY KOOM, Academic Hall. STATEMENT GENERAL STATEMENT. The total colored population of the United States, is, according tothe census of 1870, 4,880,009. It had increased during the previousten years, in spite of the civil war and its attendant suffering, a littleover ten per cent. Of the five million six hundred and forty-three thousand (5,643,000)illiterate persons over ten years of age in the United States, four mil-lion one hundred and eighty-nine thousand (4,189,000), are in theSouthern States: of the latter, the whites number one million fivehundred and sixteen thousand (1,516,000); the colored, two millionssix hundred and seventy-one thousand (2,671,000), of whom morethan half are females. This two and a half millions of utterly ignorant freedmen includesfour hundred and eighty-five thousand (485,000) youth between theages of ten and twenty-one, and probably not less than seven hundredand fifty thousand (750,000) teachable children. There are about 850,000 negro %otersin the

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