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The Connection of Samuel Chapman Armstrong as Both Borrower and Architect of Education in Hawai'i

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

C. Kalani Beyer
C. Kalani Beyer*
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School of Education of National Unviersity (La Jolla, California)
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Samuel Chapman Armstrong is well known for establishing Hampton Institute, the institution most involved with training black teachers in the South after the Civil War. It is less known that he was born in Hawai'i to the missionary couple Reverend Richard and Clarissa Chapman Armstrong. His parents were members of the Fifth Company of missionaries that arrived in Hawai'i in 1831. Reverend Armstrong withdrew from the mission in 1848 to become the Minister of Public Instruction. Until Reverend Armstrong's death in 1860, he was the major force behind education for Hawaiians in both missionary and public schools

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 23 - 48
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