Slightly tangential, but still of interest perhaps in terms of  
blacks and college education in VA is this letter in 1807 concerning  
a free black who sought permission to sit in on lectures in science  
at William and Mary:

	https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/handle/10288/16301/ 
MadisonRozarro.pdf?sequence=4

	 Somewhat related is the story of George Greenhow, a free black who  
was the janitor at William and Mary in antebellum days.  Greenhow  
liked to boast (with a fine sense of irony, obviously) that he was  
“the only negro ever educated at William & Mary”— he had been taught  
to read and write by one of the students in return for Mrs.  
Greenhow’s doing the student's laundry  (see a letter discovered by  
my colleague  Louise Kale: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Archives,  
Records of the Research Department, Folder Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin,  
1933:35-39: n.d., W. T. Greenhow to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., July 9,  
1928.  A transcript is at the Rockefeller Library).

	Also somewhat related:  the Colonial Williamsburg and William and  
Mary Field Schools this summer have finished; analysis of the  
artifacts at the presumed site of the Bray School, a school  
associated with the College from 1760 for the religious education of  
black children (free and enslaved), is proceeding.   Nothing  
definitive can yet be said, but the slate pencils, clay marbles, and  
a tiny doll are at least compatible with a school's being sited where  
the documents suggest it was--not finding such things would have  
complicated that argument.

	http://www.history.com/news/archaeologists-seek-evidence-of-oldest- 
black-school

	All of this related to the College's Lemon Project:

		http://www.wm.edu/sites/lemonproject/?svr=web

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