Southern Workman was a monthly

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

published in the United States by the Hampton Institute Press at Hampton Institute. The press was founded in 1871 and the ''Southern Workman'' began publication in 1872. For a time it was known as the Southern Workman and Hampton School Record. According to the Dictionary of Virginia the magazine "published news and information about Hampton, its faculty, and its graduates, as well as lectures, articles, book reviews, and essays on topics in African American and American Indian history and education." Many volumes of the ''Southern Workman'' are available online. Issues are also in the collections of various libraries. Contributors included columnist

Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne Orra Henderson Moore Gray Langhorne (March 8, 1841 – May 6, 1904) was an American writer, reformer, and an early supporter and activist for women's suffrage in Virginia. Langhorne held progressive views for her time, often writing in favor of raci ...

, William Anthony Avery,

Natalie Curtis Natalie Curtis, later Natalie Curtis Burlin (26 April 1875 – 23 October 1921) was an American ethnomusicologist. Curtis, along with Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Frances Densmore, was one of a small group of women doing important ethnological s ...

, Anna Evans Murray, Jane E. Davis, Julian Bagley,

Charles Holston Williams Charles Holston Williams (January 25, 1886 – 1978) was an American choreographer and professor of physical education. He was the organizer and first director of the Hampton Institute Creative Dance Group, the first national touring company compos ...

, and Della Irving Hayden. In 1900, the magazine was edited by J. E. Davis (Jane E. Davis) who shifted into the role full-time and expanded the size and scope of the publication. Her series of articles on early Eastern Virginia was published in 1907 as ''Round about Jamestown: Historical Sketches of the Lower Virginia Peninsula''. Hampton Institute Press published Samuel Chapman Armstrong's 1913 founder's day address. It also published ''Then and now at Hampton Institute, 1868-1902'' in 1902.

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