Schooling the Nation
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Schooling the Nation

The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women

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eBook - ePub

Schooling the Nation

The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women

About this book

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction A Luminous Moment
  9. 1 Crandall and Canterbury: The (Un)Steady State of the Standing Order
  10. 2 The Women and the Issues Are Joined: Maria Davis, Prudence Crandall, and Sarah Harris
  11. 3 Activating the Abolitionist Networks
  12. 4 Martyrs in the Classroom: The Whip and the Prison
  13. 5 Young Ladies and Little Misses: The Black Students and Their Contexts
  14. 6 Ripples and Reflections in the Abolitionist Networks: Conventions and Curriculum
  15. 7 Students on Trial: Thrice Inside the Courtroom
  16. 8 Patriarchal Marriage and White Violence: The Closing of the Canterbury Academy
  17. 9 You Are Trying to Improve Your Mind in Every Way: Lives after the Academy
  18. Conclusion Hearing All the Voices
  19. Postscript
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Back Cover