1803, Cyrus Bustill opened a school for black children in his home, and a year later, Absalom Jones opened another school. By 1837, with financial help from the Quakers and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, ten private schools for blacks were operating in Philadelphia. Preamble and articles of the association See also Benefit society Free African Union Society, Newport, Rhode Island Garrison Literary and Benevolent Association, New York City References Further reading Boyd, Herb. Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It, New York: Doubleday, 2000, collection of primary source documents. Johnson, Charles, Patricia Smith, et al., Preamble with link for text for Free African Society, Part 3: 1791–1831/"Brotherly Love", Africans in America, 1998, PBS, WGBH Educational Foundation. "The Free African Society of Philadelphia", DocStoc ["1784-1789: The U.S. Constitution"] by Donna Brazile in Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, pp. 153–157. One World. 2021. African Americans' rights organizations African Methodist Episcopal Church African-American history in Philadelphia African-American history of Pennsylvania African-American organizations American abolitionist organizations Ethnic fraternal orders in the United States Nondenominational Christian societies and communities Organizations based in Philadelphia Organizations established in 1787