A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. is being moved into Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia
The curriculum ranged from spellers to the Book of Common Prayer. But even within the schools’ paternalistic framework, the education could still be empowering, perhaps even subversive.
The former schoolhouse eventually was moved from its original spot to make way for a dormitory. It was expanded over the years, last used as an office for ROTC, the college program that prepares military officers. The Bray School was exceptional: Although Virginia waited until the 1800s to impose an anti-literacy laws, white leaders across much of Colonial America forbid educating enslaved people, fearing literacy would encourage their liberty. South Carolina criminalized teaching slaves to write English in 1740.
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