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Hiding in plain sight, William & Mary building identified as New World s oldest still-standing school for Black children

Hiding in plain sight, William & Mary building identified as New World s oldest still-standing school for Black children
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Williamsburg School For Enslaved Children To Undergo Restoration

Williamsburg School For Enslaved Children To Undergo Restoration Patch 2/26/2021 Mark Hand © Courtesy of William & Mary William & Mary officials revealed a historical marker in March 2019 commemorating the spot where the Bray School was once located. WILLIAMSBURG, VA As part of Virginia’s racial reckoning with its long history of slavery and institutional racism, the state-supported College of William & Mary and the private Colonial Williamsburg Foundation are working to promote education about the history of the treatment of Black people in the town and across the nation. Founded in 1693, William & Mary is the second-oldest institution of higher education in the country, after Harvard University. For nearly the first 300 years of the college s existence and for 50 years after the founding of Colonial Williamsburg, slavery was not talked about much and the history of Black families was often overlooked.

Hiding in plain sight, William & Mary building identified as New World s oldest still-standing school for Black children

Hiding in plain sight, William & Mary building identified as New World s oldest still-standing school for Black children
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At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered

Researchers rediscover school for black children on William & Mary campus

William & Mary Military Science/Digges House at 524 Prince George St. (WYDaily/Courtesy of William and Mary) The unassuming, small, white building tucked away on Prince George Street houses a lot more history than was originally thought. The building most recently housed offices for William and Mary’s Department of Military Science and is known as the Prince George House on campus. Dendrochronology analysis of the building’s wood framing conducted in 2020 by Colonial Williamsburg researchers confirmed the structure once housed Williamsburg’s Bray School, an institution that educated many of the town’s Black children from 1760 to 1774. The Bray School’s mission was to impart Christian education to Black children and for students to accept enslavement as divinely ordained. The school was suggested for establishment in Williamsburg by Benjamin Franklin.

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