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Updated: May 12, 2025

The men who stood so loyally by me in the founding of the school were Messrs. Frank Warren, Willis McCants, Ellis Johnson, John Thomas, Isaac Johnson, Tom Johnson and P. J. Gaines. These men and their wives were ready at every call. They gave suppers, fairs and picnics as well as other entertainments to raise money for the school.

William James Edwards - Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt

During the fifties J.W. Morris of the same city attended a school conducted by the then distinguished Simeon Beard. In the same way T. McCants Stewart and the Grimké brothers were able to begin their education there prior to emancipation. More schools for slaves existed than white men knew of, for it was difficult to find them.

Carter Godwin Woodson - The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the: United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War