A pit school was a covert school for African American children from the time when they were prevented from receiving an education due to repression and lack of freedom of assembly.
These schools were held at night. A pit would be dug and covered over.
A pit school is referred to in the book Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen.
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“Not Chaos, not
The darkest pit of lowest Erebus,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out
By help of dreams can breed such fear and awe
As fall upon us often when we look
Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
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—Henry David David (1817–1862)