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

A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children

The Independent UK · Nov 1, 2024

America’s Oldest Black School From 1760s Virginia Moves To Colonial Williamsburg

Christian reformers taught free and enslaved black children to read before the American Revolution in Virginia’s then-capital. 

Zenger · Feb 13, 2023