For historians and descendants alike, the Bray School contradicts the belief that all enslaved Americans were uneducated. “Everything that I learned about my ancestors was wrong,”
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WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia: A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the US was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved a half-mile Friday to Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia museum that continues to expand its emphasis on African American history. Built 25 years before the American Revolution, the original structure stood near the college