O! SHAME! SHAME!!
Charles C. Burleigh
The Unionist 1:7 (September 12, 1833)
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O! SHAME! SHAME!!”
☞ “The following paragraph is extracted from the Unionist of last week”
“’The laudable efforts of the Canterbury worthies to drive Miss Crandall from her purpose, by withholding from her the necessaries of life, will have the effect to perpetuate their own well earned fame, if not to attain its primary object. The latest measure which we have heard of their adopting, is the FILLING MISS C’S WELL WITH MANURE FROM THE BARNYARD, and then refusing to give her water from their own wells.’”
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The vigilante violence and harassment of the Canterbury Female Academy was continuous, malicious, and often crudely immature, as in this instance. Putting dung into drinking water can be life-threatening, and coupled with the white villagers' unwillingness to assist the Academy by delivering fresh water, this incident revealed the depth of inhuman disdain that the white villagers had.
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