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The African American educator who, in the 1830s, started a school to educate black children in

Philadelphia was

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History. The Institute was founded as the African Institute by Richard Humphreys, a Quaker philanthropist who bequeathed $10,000, one-tenth of his estate, to design and establish a school to educate people of African descent.

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