Williamsburg Schoolhouse Restored
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•1760 schoolhouse for Black U.S. children holds complicated history of slavery, resilience
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Colonial Williamsburg has identified more than 80 children who lined its pinewood benches in the 1760s .
The museum dedicated the Williamsburg Bray School at a large ceremony on Friday .
The school rationalized slavery within a religious framework and encouraged children to accept their fates as God's plan.
"It's a story of resilience and resistance," museum director Maureen Elgersman Lee says.
About 75% of the original floor has survived, allowing visitors to walk where the children and teacher placed their feet.
The schoolhouse has been mostly restored.
The teacher, Wager , was the mother of at least two kids.
"Did some of her mothering bleed over into what she showed those children?".
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