Advertisement for Phelps' anti-slavery pamphlet
The Unionist 1834-04-10
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Amos Phelps (1805-1847) was an endorser of the school. His pamphlet being locally available suggests, once again, that the students at the Canterbury Female Academy were reading about their own struggle!
The pamphlet in question, for instance, compared the Canterbury Female Academy students to impressed sailors (one of the alleged causes of the War of 1812): “The war of the revolution was a contest for principle. Had the principle in question been yielded, who could have set limits to the acts of oppression growing out it ? So also in our war for sailors’ rights, the bone of contention was, the right of search and impressment. The mere fact that a few seamen had been injured and abused, was as nothing, aside from the principle involved. This, in common with that of the revolution, was a contest for principle, and the oppression resisted was the oppression of principle. And further, whence the utter odiousness and the cruel oppression of the far-famed ‘black law’ of Connecticut? Not that Miss Crandall and a few colored Misses are subjected by it to certain shameful acts of cruelty and oppression. These are as nothing, comparatively, except as they involve principle; and the law, which allows and sanctions them, is itself comparatively harmless and innocent, except as it involves principle—principle which puts in jeopardy the rights of thousands.
Amos A. Phelps, Lectures on Slavery and Its Remedy. (Boston: New-England Anti-Slavery Society, 1834), p. 28
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