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A Canterbury Tale: A Resource Package for Connecticut's Prudence Crandall Affair

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Title	A Canterbury Tale: A Resource Package for Connecticut's Prudence Crandall Affair
View collection at	http://www.yale.edu/glc/crandall/index.htm
Description	Prudence Crandall, a white Quaker, opened a teacher-training school for young African-American women in Canterbury, Connecticut in 1833. Local opposition forced the school to close the following year. This collection includes a selection of Crandall's letters; an advertisement that announced "the opening of a 'High School for Young Colored Ladies and Misses; a song composed in support of Prudence Crandall; and other documents.
Subject	African American women Education Women educators
Place	United States -- Connecticut -- Canterbury
Featured Women	Crandall, Prudence
Time Period	1820-1839
Publisher	New Haven, CT: Gilder Lehrman Center
Primary Sources	Advertisements Correspondence Songs
Thumbnail caption	Detail from: Advertisement and Notice Regarding the Opening of a "High School for Young Colored Ladies and Misses" The Liberator (March 2, 1833)

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