Indeed, the Quakers carried this work into the war itself.  There was a kind
of Quaker educational camp for freed slaves at Yorktown, teaching primarily
(as I recall) agricultural skills.  I believe there was some classic
classroom education there as well.  If memory serves, the Quakers in
question were primarily out of the Philadelphia Meeting.

--Eric Johnson

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Subject: Re: Teaching Slaves To Read

For a discussion of this issue see _The Friendly Virginians: America's
First
Quakers_ by Jay Worrall, Jr. I do not have a copy in front of me, but if
my
memory serves me right, he specifically discusses the imposition of laws
in
Virginia forbidding the teaching of slaves and the Quaker response to
them.
This was one of the major areas of effort as an active effort by Quakers
as
was the whole issue of public education in a more general sense.

Bill Russell
Alexandria, VA

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