The British-American Institute of Science and Industry was a school started in 1842 by Josiah Henson near

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, Western District, Canada West,

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, as part of the Dawn Settlement, a community of fugitive slaves who had escaped to Canada. The institute was a school for all ages designed to provide a general education and teacher training. For a short period it was a

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. It was taken over by the

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in 1849. The school closed down in 1868. The site of the school is encompassed today by the Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site.

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