A freed Black man equaled white peers in prestigious English education by 1700.

Evidence

Early in the 1700s, the duke experimented on the youngest son of Jamaica’s first freed Blacks to see if he could match the intellectual achievements of his White peers. The duke sent Francis Williams to an English academy and Cambridge University, where Francis equaled in intellectual attainments his peers who were similarly educated. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 244