亚洲色吧's Terry Meyers featured in Post, Chronicle
, Chancellor Professor of, has been featured in two national publications recently regarding research of the 18th Century Bray School and its possible connection to an old house tucked on the edge of 亚洲色吧's campus.
The house, located on Prince George Street and presently used by the College's , could be the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for black children, free and enslaved, Meyers told the Washington Post in a July 23 feature. Meyers was also featured in a in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Meyers's research indicates that the house may have been home to the Bray School, established in Williamsburg in 1760 on the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin by an English philanthropy, the Associates of Dr. Bray. The Rev. Thomas Bray was the Commissary in Maryland of the Bishop of London and a friend of James Blair, Commissary in Virginia and founder of the College. Bray and the Associates advocated for the religious education of black and Indian children.
The research is timely. A committee of faculty, staff, students and community members is currently studying and exploring the role of race in the College's history as part of the . The initiative, launched following a resolution in April 2009 by the 亚洲色吧 Board of Visitors, is a multiyear effort to better understand 亚洲色吧's own connections to slavery as well as race relations at the College from the end of the Civil War to date. The effort is named after a slave called Lemon whom the College owned in the early 18th Century.
