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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Ben Finley

Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience

Colonial School-Black Children - (Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery.

The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also has identified more than 80 children who lined its pinewood benches in the 1760s.

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