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Inside a 1760 schoolhouse for Black children is a complicated history of slavery and resilience

Nov. 01, 2024 17:03 PM EDT

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. The museum, Colonial Williamsburg, also...