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 ...

Take away its legal sanction and subsidy, and the institution’s entire economic edifice crumbles.

The History of Virginia, from Its First Settlement to the Present Day by John Burk, John Daly Burk, Skelton Jones , Louis Hue Girardin. Publication date 1805 Publisher Printed for the author, by ...