Spelman founders justified industrial training as correcting assumed black indolence

Evidence

Founders Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles believed that the legacy of slavery left blacks indolent and in need of proper work habits, and they insisted that an academic education without an internalization of the Protestant work ethic proved more harmful than beneficial. … Under the title “domestic training,” the industrial component, begun in 1883, offered practical lessons in sewing and dressmaking, housekeeping, laundry work, chamber work, and cooking. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 181

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Booker T. Washington vs. Du Bois industrial-vs-classical education debate and to ch4’s treatment of the Talented Tenth ideal. — connects to: The training school actively selected out the poor and undisciplined rather than reforming them. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1665; Spelman founders treated black emotional worship and home life as needing correction — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 185; Northern white missionaries founded Spelman with Rockefeller money as black women’s higher education — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 177

Broader Connections

• Northern white missionaries founded Spelman with Rockefeller money as black women’s higher education #expands (0.82) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 177