Wartime Education

Linked to Freedmen’s Education during Reconstruction

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An engraving published in 1863 depicts a teacher instructing African American children in Virginia during the Civil War. Schools for Black students in Georgia were operated secretly before the war, when teaching enslaved people to read was against the law.

Image from American Antiquarian Society

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