Virginia
Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience
A museum in Virginia has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read through a curriculum that justified slavery.
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