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education. The founder was convinced that there was a treasury of untapped talent among the black working and lower middle classes. Kingston
College would nurture that talent and so take to another level the uncompleted process of full Emancipation that begun in 1838. K.C., as the school became known, admitted any boy, black or not, born in wedlock or not, who could satisfy the entrance requirements and pay the affordable fees.
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