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Photographer: Larry Gertner
Taken: June 17, 2020
Caption: Inset
Additional Description: "The school in Seneca Village was a city school with roots in the abolitionist movement. This engraving depicts the African Free School No. 2 located on Mulberry Street, one of several schools created beginning in the late 1700s by the New York Manumission Society. This anti-slavery organization led by influential white New Yorkers provided education to the children of slaves and free African Americans. In the 1830s, there schools became part of the city’s public school system."
Submitted: April 20, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p580669
File Size: 0.056 Megabytes

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