Former slaves began forming the privately owned college, then the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, before the turn of the 20th century to offer a place for the children of black farmers to go to school.

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Rafters and torn brick walls serving as his backdrop, a brown-haired man in a T-shirt and shorts clutches onto a blond girl in brightly colored New Balance sneakers, carrying her away from the school as she peers over his shoulder.

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And by the time she was nine, she was in a reform school and was sent to the House of Good Shepherd for Colored Girls in Baltimore for a year, which was quite a dour place, I think.

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