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Brief Notice of the Fire at the Canterbury Female Academy

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Schenectady Cabinet 1834-02-19

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Brief Notice of the Fire at the Canterbury Female Academy

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By an article in the Brooklyn, Conn. Unionist, it would appear that an attempt has been made to  fire  the building at Canterbury, in which Miss Crandall keeps her school for colored females.—“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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This very loose paraphrase and commentary comes from the Schnectady Cabinet, a consistent ally of Abolitionisism

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Title
Brief Notice of the Fire at the Canterbury Female Academy
Description
Fire at the Canterbury Female Academy on January 27th.
Bibliographic Citation
Schenectady Cabinet 1834-02-19
Creator
Schenectady
Type
Text
Language
English
Publisher
Schnectady Cabinet
Rights
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Subject
Canterbury Female Academy; Vigilante Violence
Source
Schnectady Cabinet
Original Item
sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier
unionist--text-0233
Category
Unionist content
Issue
26
Related People
Prudence Crandall
Related image
unionist--image-0265

"Colored Schools Broken Up, In Free States"

This jllustration is not exclusively about the Canterbury Female Academy, but covered numerous instances of violence aimed at educational ventures for free Blacks, as noted in the caption. <em>American Anti-Slavery Society, American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839</em> (New York: S. W. Benedict, 1839), p. 15.

Above: This jllustration is not exclusively about the Canterbury Female Academy, but covered numerous instances of violence aimed at educational ventures for free Blacks, as noted in the caption. American Anti-Slavery Society, American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: S. W. Benedict, 1839), p. 15.