| Description | Letter to BFSS from Rev John Wray, Berbice. Report on education in the colony. In the town of New Amsterdam there are 3 or 4 schools "kept by coloured ladies", 2 of them are also teachers in their Sunday School. No school for the children of slaves except for the children belonging to the British Crown, and their Sunday School which is open to all. Day school has 40 pupils formed into classes and instructed by monitors in the lessons of the BFSS. Lists school materials he would like from the BFSS. |