Connecticut's Canterbury Tale. Its Heroine Prudence Crandall, and its Moral for To-day

by John C. Kimball

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Two portrait plates. 2 , 16, 2 pp. Ad for The Life and Times of William Lloyd Garrison, in the rear. 8vo. Publisher's wrappers. Item #354190 In 1832, noted Canterbury, Connecticut schoolmaster Prudence Crandall admitted a young African American woman to her all white school. After refusing to rescind the acceptance upon pressure from the community, the white parents withdrew their children from the school. In response, Crandall opened an

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