Surrounded America's first school for black girls, 1832

Lupano, Wilfrid, 1971- author.

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"In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a "charming and picturesque" little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents. Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think in the area, but harmless enough. Until the day when the "charming school", led by Prudence Crandall, announces that it will now welcome Black girls ... Thirty years before the abolition of slavery, some fifteen young people in the Crandall school...

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