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Public Sentiment, Respecting the Black Law of Connecticut and the persecution of Miss Crandall

Charles C. Burleigh

The Unionist 1833-08-08

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Public Sentiment, Respecting the Black Law of Connecticut and the persecution of Miss Crandall

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This compilation is a key primary source for understanding the impact of Canterbury across the North. Apparently Burleigh was reprinting this from The Genius of Temperance, in which there are a few additional such compendemiums.

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Title
Public Sentiment, Respecting the Black Law of Connecticut and the persecution of Miss Crandall
Description
Compilation of newspaper coverage of Canterbury
Bibliographic Citation
The Unionist 1833-08-08
Creator
Charles C. Burleigh
Full Issue Sequence Number
1833-08-08 p03.29
Type
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Language
English
Publisher
The Unionist
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Subject
Canterbury Female Academy; Journalistic Debates; Black Law
Source
The Unionist
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unionist--text-0043
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Unionist content
Issue
2
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Crandall in Prison

This drawing of Crandall in prison portrays her as being Quaker (which she no longer was), as being alone (Anna Benson was with her), and with her hair cut as if she was going to be beheaded! But it was exactly this sort of outrage that fueled many of the articles in the compendium that follows - the imprisonment of a woman for the crime of teaching, struck a deep chord of disbelief and indignation.

Above: This drawing of Crandall in prison portrays her as being Quaker (which she no longer was), as being alone (Anna Benson was with her), and with her hair cut as if she was going to be beheaded! But it was exactly this sort of outrage that fueled many of the articles in the compendium that follows - the imprisonment of a woman for the crime of teaching, struck a deep chord of disbelief and indignation.