Schooling the Nation : The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women
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| Title: | Schooling the Nation : The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Jennifer Rycenga |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | African American women--Education--Connecticut--Canterbury--History--19th century |
| Categories: | HISTORY / General, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / African American & Black, HISTORY / Women |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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