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. f • • ‘ 7 : i ' .. . •'Schools for Colored Children.The efforts of an oppressed class to elevate (itself must ever be deeply interesting to every well ordered mind. Shut out as the colored people now are from every avenue to honorable| distinction* they, still struggle to bestow on their: children as good an education as can be obtain-cd. They now support six flourishing schools j in this city. Of these, five arc fught by colored teachers, some of whom are men of good education. The sixth is “The Cincinnati HighJC?| School,^ and was established, sottie five weeks 1 I since, by the liberality and wise benevolence o* jour wihhy and enterprising cii«zen, Hiram S-\ Gtfmore. He hm fitted up a building at the end 1 j of Harrison st. on the Decr-Creck bluff, with 3 j commodious chapel and three neat and properly furnished apartments for instruction. He has j also engaged s teachers two well qualifiedI! ladies, and a gentleman, a graduate-of Amherst | College, and formerly a slaveholder. After emancipating his own slaves, he has felt it to be | his duty to devote himself for a time to the instruction of those who need more than any others, able and well-educated teachers. A musical 1 teacher has also been engaged; he gives two lessons a week.We had the pleasure of looking in on this school, yesterday, and were much pleased w»ih its appearance. About eighty pupils ba*e al-| ready been enrolled and the number is rapid!) j |! increasing. Many of them are arrangers-—the children of Southern gentlemen—and for whom no means of education are provided in their na-: live States. We heard some of them rectt-e, which they did with sprightliness. The girls, too, sung a few songs, showing thajt they had been well taught by -the Professor of Music.The situation of the building could not well j be betu r— Front its upper stories, it commands a fine view of the hills, river and valley.Those who feel an interest in the advancing : intelligence of his persecuted class of Americans I will do well to call.
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Cincinnati Morning Herald
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Jun 21, 1844
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