Dorchester Academy

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

Googling for something else, I ran across these web pages for
Dorchester Academy:

 http://www.dorchesteracademy.com/outlook.htm

It was founded in 1896 and closed in 1940 due to consolidation of schools.

Some text from those web pages:

``Floyd Snelson, a former slave who ministered and taught at the
AMA's Andersonville, Georgia, school and did further study at
Atlanta University, was hired to come to Liberty County to promote
Congressionalism and foster the school. In 1879 the school prospered
under his leadership and was enlarged to provide secondary education for
freedman for the first time in Liberty County. It was named Dorchester
Academy, referring back to the original home of the first settlers
at Midway. The Academy was  both a boarding and a day school. It was
attended not only by the children of freedmen, but also by parents and
grandparents. They had come to know the Bible orally through the ministry
of Mr. Charles Colcock, a rich planter and Presbyterian clergymen. Now
they wanted to read it themselves, to know it more intimately and
searchingly.''

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