With a view to giving Negroes industrial training their friends opened "The School for the Destitute" at the House of Industry in 1848.

Three years later Sarah Luciana was teaching a school of seventy youths at this House of Industry, and the Sheppard School, another industrial institution, was in operation in 1850 in a building bearing the same name.

In 1849 arose the "Corn Street Unclassified School" of forty-seven children in charge of Sarah L.Peltz.

"The Holmesburg Unclassified School" was organized in 1854.

Other institutions of various purposes were "The House of Refuge," "The Orphans' Shelter," and "The Home for Colored Children." See Bacon, _Statistics of the Colored People of Philadelphia_, 1859.
Among those then teaching in private schools of Philadelphia were Solomon Clarkson, Robert George, John Marshall, John Ross, Jonathan Tudas, and David Ware.