A historian's journey to discovering the Bray School – Daily Press
Terry Meyers's research uncovered the school’s probable site around 2002.
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New light: Hidden in Plain Sight - The Magazine Antiques
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In 1760, a school in Williamsburg taught Black children to accept slavery. Colonial Williamsburg has plans for the site now.
Terry Meyers, retired English professor of College of William and Mary, discovered that the building once housed the Bray School, a school for Black children in the 1760s. WILLIAMSBURGÂ â Beginning in 1760, two dozen or so enslaved and free Black children attended school each day in a small two-story cottage in Williamsburg, a location suggested by Benjamin Franklin. They learned the tenants of Christianity, reading, proper behavior and why they should accept enslavement. Thanks to a ret...
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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 researcher...
Source: wydaily.com