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Summary:

"Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Campbell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal action to pursue their studies, but the school of higher learning flourished until a vigilante attack destroyed the Academy. Jennifer Rycenga recovers a pioneering example of antiracism and Black-white cooperation. At once an inspirational and cautionary tale, Canterbury Academy succeeded thanks to far-reaching networks, alliances, and activism that placed it within Black, women's, and abolitionist history. Rycenga focuses on the people like Sarah Harris, the Academy's first Black student; Maria Davis, Crandall's Black housekeeper and her early connection to the embryonic abolitionist movement; and Crandall herself. Telling their stories, she highlights the agency of Black and white women within the currents, and as a force changing those currents, in nineteenth-century America. Insightful and provocative, Schooling the Nation tells the forgotten story of remarkable women and a collaboration across racial and gender lines"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : a luminous moment
• Crandall and Canterbury : the (un)steady state of the standing order
• The women and the issues are joined : Maria Davis, Prudence Crandall, and Sarah Harris
• Activating the abolitionist networks
• Martyrs in the classroom : the whip and the prison
• Young ladies and little misses : the Black students and their contexts
• Ripples and reflections in the abolitionist networks : conventions and curriculum
• Students on trial : thrice inside the courtroom
• Patriarchal marriage and white violence : the closing of the Canterbury Academy
• You are trying to improve your mind in every way : lives after the Academy
• Conclusion : hearing all the voices.

Author/Creator:

Rycenga, Jennifer , author

Contributors:

Kozlowski, Kazimiera , author of foreword

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Schooling the nation: the success of the Canterbury Academy for Black women [by Rycenga, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Schooling the nation [by Rycenga, J.] (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2025] — ISBN 9780252046308; LCCN 2024020279)

Related Series:

Women, gender, and sexuality in American history

Subjects:

Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890

Canterbury Female Boarding School (Canterbury, Conn.)

African American women — Education — Connecticut — Canterbury — History — 19th century

Canterbury (Conn.) — Race relations — History — 19th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

LC2803.C36 R93 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780252047589 (electronic book)
0252047583 (electronic book)
9780252046308 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780252088377 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024020280

OCLC Numbers:

1460025694

Other Control Numbers:

EBC31725802 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp21301583