The Bray School, where free and enslaved Black children were educated, moved from the William & Mary campus to Colonial Williamsburg.
morning, alongside crowds to watch an 18th-century building slowly, cautiously transported through town to new prominence in Colonial Williamsburg.on the William & Mary campus, it had been overlooked, covered over, forgotten, moved out of the way. Finally a professor rediscovered, and other scholars later confirmed, the original Williamsburg Bray School.
On Friday, that rediscovered building was being moved — verrrry carefully — to a new site in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area. There the school will sit near the old First Baptist Church, one of the country’s oldest African American congregations.“History is unfolding right before our eyes,” said Maureen
One of the most amazing things about the Bray School story, said Matt Webster, executive director of the Grainger department of architectural preservation and research at Colonial Williamsburg, is it defies logic. “It tests what we know about slavery in the 18th century, about education in the 18th century. It’s also a very powerful story about education, and the power of education: Once you educate someone, you can’t really control what they do with that.
Spectators gathered as the Bray School, the country's oldest extant building that taught Black children, was moved from William & Mary's campus on Feb. 10. big steel beams underneath where it needed support, Webster said. Then they slowly lifted it onto a trailer that was later hitched to a truck that would roll it down the street.had already removed some road signs along the route and cut low branches, made sure no cars were parked along the way, and put rolling road closures in place Friday.
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