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Prudence Crandall

(Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890)

Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 27, 1890) was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, which became the first known school for African American girls ("young Ladies and little Misses of color") in the United States led by a white woman. She was the sister of Reuben Crandall, the defendant in the Trial of Reuben Crandall. (From Wikipedia)

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Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage (New York: Aladdin Books, 1955), by Elizabeth Yates, illust. by Nora S. Unwin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

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Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890: Report of the arguments of counsel in the case of Prudence Crandall plff. in error vs. State of Connecticut before the Supreme Court of Errors at their session at Brooklyn, July term 1834. (Publ. by Garrison & Knapp, 1834), also by Member of the bar and Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors (page images at HathiTrust)

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