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