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title: 'Speech Given During the Dedication of the First Free Church of Schenectady Celebrating the Establishment of a Place of Worship …'
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- 'Theodore Sedgwick Wright'
date: 1837-12-28
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- 'Education'
- 'Race Relations and Slavery'
- 'History (General)'
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- '1 Samuel 7'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1837-speech-given-during-the-dedication-of-the-first-free-church-of-schenectady-celebrating-the-establishment-of-a-place-of-worship
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# Speech Given During the Dedication of the First Free Church of Schenectady Celebrating the Establishment of a Place of Worship …

Theodore S. Wright (1837) recounts early efforts to educate Black children: a brief Union College school, Methodist-led teaching, and later private instruction—closing with "Hitherto hath the Lord helped."

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