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Crews unearth relics of enslaved children’s lives at site of 1760s school
The excavation of the Williamsburg Bray School has yielded hundreds of artifacts, providing a glimpse into the lives of Black ...
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Site of 18th-Century School for Black Students, Hidden in Plain Sight, Emerges in Virginia
The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in ...
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Archaeologists Unearth Artifacts From One of the Nation’s Oldest Schools for Black Children
News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and ...
Crumbling school hall forces students to miss an hour of class each day
Senior pupils at a primary school in Melbourne’s inner west are being transported by bus to a nearby college every day ...
Archaeologists unearth cellar in America’s first school for enslaved children
The Bray School opened in 1760 and was North America’s first institution to educate both enslaved and free Black children. However, the Bray School’s underlying goals offer a stark example of the ...
Archaeologists unearth foundation of 1760s schoolhouse for Black children
Archaeologists have unearthed the foundation of a building from the 1700s that once supported the nation’s oldest surviving ...
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Skyuka Hall’s Head Of School Tapped For National Organization
Skyuka Hall School has been meeting the challenge of providing a high-quality education to students who learn differently. That success is in no small part due to the leadership of President and Head ...