The Canterbury Affair
Charles C. Burleigh
The Unionist 1833-08-08
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THE CANTERBURY AFFAIR. The Emancipator asserts on the authority of Mr John G Whittier, that the excitement against Miss Crandall, first arose from her admitting a pious negro girl, who wished to qualify herself for the employment of teaching, into her school, to which no colored pupils had then been admitted; and that the opposition thus excited against her, led her to establish her school for colored Misses. We wish to know, for a certainty, whether this is “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.” It makes the Canterbury affair much worse than any former account of it.—Vermont Chronicle.
The editor of the Chronicle will find an answer to his question in the letter of Miss Crandall, a copy of which we shall send him. It may not be amiss, however to remark, as this may come under the eye of some who have not perused Miss C’s. letter, that the Emancipator has, we believe, given a statement substantially correct.
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was active in numerous Abolitionist and literary editing projects at this time.
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