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A thought to live by:
"At Hampton, for the first time, I learned what education was expected to do for an individual.  Before going there I had a good deal of the then rather prevalent idea among our people that to secure an education meant to have a good easy time,  free from all necessity for manual labor.  At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labor,  but learned to love labor, not alone for its financial value,  but for labor's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to-do something which the world wants brings.  At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy." Booker T. Washington

Emancipation Oak

Trustee House