troumontaine

Updated: August 22, 2026

A colored "Santo Dominican" named Julian Troumontaine taught openly in Savannah up to 1829 when such an act was prohibited by law. He taught clandestinely thereafter, however, until 1844. In New Orleans, where the Creoles and freedmen counted early in the nineteenth century as a substantial element in society, persons of color had secured to themselves better facilities of education.

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