Crews unearth relics of enslaved children's lives at site of 1760s school
Underneath William & Mary's Gates Hall, which is undergoing renovation, archaeologists are donning hard hats, steel-toed boots and safety glasses to find what has long been hidden in its foundation: the remnants of the Williamsburg Bray School, which educated enslaved and freed Black children in the 1760s.
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