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African American Education
Former slaves were educated at a Freedman's school in Chimborazo, in Richmond. Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Cartland, a white Quaker from New Hampshire, recorded the ages, daily attendance, and development of seventy students. Early progress was made in education for African Americans, particularly in the 1880s when the "Readjusters" were in power, before the resurgence of the Democratic Party in the late 1880s. |