Schooling the Nation : The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rycenga, Jennifer.

Contributor:

Kozlowski, Kazimiera.

Series:

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890.

Crandall, Prudence.

Canterbury Female Boarding School (Canterbury, Conn.).

African American women--Education--Connecticut--Canterbury--History--19th century.

African American women.

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

Canterbury (Conn.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2025.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780252047589

0252047583

OCLC:

1465268886