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Updated: June 4, 2025

This benefactor is commonly known as the first to begin such an institution for the education of Negroes; but the school in Goose Creek Parish, South Carolina, was in operation at least nine years earlier. At first Neau called the Negroes together after their daily toil was over and taught them at his house. By 1708 he was instructing thus as many as two hundred.

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