Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 exam•Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Definition
An educational institution established in late eighteenth-century New York that provided education to children of enslaved and free Black people and helped prepare early Black abolitionists for leadership.
AP course connection
Topic 3.15: 3.15 Black History Education and African American Studies