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A historic building believed to be the oldest school used to teach Black children in the U.S. was picked up and relocated to Colonial Williamsburg<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Bray School, constructed 25 years before the American Revolution, was loaded onto a flatbed truck and transported a half-mile from an area near the college campus of William & Mary<\/a> to the living history museum.<\/p>\n

The move comes as the historic site continues to emphasize African American history.<\/p>\n

“Religion was at the heart of the school, and it was not a gospel of abolition,” said Maureen Elgersman Lee, director of William & Mary\u2019s Bray School Lab.<\/p>\n

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The pinewood building held as many as 30 students at a time, historians have said.<\/p>\n

“There was this need to proselytize and to bring salvation while still not doing anything to destabilize the institution of slavery,” Lee said. “Save the soul, but continue to enslave the body. It was the here versus the hereafter.”<\/p>\n

On Friday, hundreds of people lined the streets to celebrate the trip to Virginia\u2019s colonial capital<\/a> as it continues to teach early history through reenactments, interpreters and restored buildings.<\/p>\n

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The Bray School stands as a symbol for historians and descendants alike defiant of the belief all enslaved Americans were uneducated. The school\u2019s faith-based curriculum \u2014 created by an English charity \u2014 however, justified slavery and encouraged students to accept their fate as God\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n

The curriculum was still empowering, perhaps even subversive, historians said.<\/p>\n

“I was going through a facsimile of one of the books, and there are words like \u2018liberty,\u2019” Lee said. “What did learning those words do to expand these children\u2019s sense of themselves? Their sense of the world?”<\/p>\n

The school\u2019s student body is believed to have included free and enslaved students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A white teacher named Ann Wager, who lived upstairs at the school, taught an estimated 300 to 400 students, whose ages ranged from 3 to 10, according to surviving records.<\/p>\n

The Bray School was established in 1760 at the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, chairman of a London-based Anglican charity named after philanthropist Reverend Thomas Bray. It operated until 1774.<\/p>\n

The charity also set up schools in other cities, including New York and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The building became a private home for years before being incorporated into William & Mary\u2019s campus.<\/p>\n

Williamsburg is less than 10 miles from Jamestown, which England established in 1607.<\/p>\n

The identity of the original Bray School building was confirmed in 2021, through the use of dendrochronology, a scientific method<\/a> that examines tree rings in lumber to determine the wood\u2019s harvest date.<\/p>\n

“This is a remarkable story of survival,” said Matthew Webster, Colonial Williamsburg\u2019s executive director of architectural preservation and research. “And for us, it\u2019s so important to put it back (to its original state) and tell the full and true story.”<\/p>\n

Colonial Williamsburg is a museum that was founded in 1926. It started teaching Black history in 1979.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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