British-American Institute
- British-American Institute
The British-American Institute was a school started in 1842 by Josiah Henson as part of the Dawn Settlement, a community of fugitive slaves who had escaped to Canada. The institute was a school for all ages designed to provide a general education and teacher training. It was taken over by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1849. The school closed down in 1868.
External links
* [http://www.uncletomscabin.org/homepg.htm Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site]
* [http://www.heritagefdn.on.ca/userfiles/HTML/nts_1_8200_1.html Ontario Heritage Foundation]
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