Response to the Black Law
Worcester Yeoman
The Unionist 1833-08-08
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“The Blue Laws of Connecticut have become Black. We learn from the Norwich Courier, that Miss Prudence Crandall was arrested on Thursday for the heinous offence, in the eye of the Connecticut law-givers, of instructing a few colored girls not belonging to the State. Not obtaining bonds, she was committed to jail.”— Worcester Yeoman.
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The Blue Laws were restrictions to activity on the Sabbath. Lists of the Connecticut Blue Laws were often exaggerated or outright invented. However, as a youngster growing up in Connecticut in the 1970s, an echo of them still existed in the ban on liquor sales on Sundays!
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See Full Metadata Hide Full MetadataThe Code of 1650, Being a Compilation of the Earliest Laws and Orders of the General Court of Connecticut; also, the Constitution, or Civil Compact, entered in and adopted by the towns of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield in 1638-39. To which is added, Some Extracts from the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of New-Haven Colony, Commonly Called Blue Laws.
