Confirming Growth and Harassment of School
Genius of Temperance, Philanthropist and People’s Advocate 1833-10-30, v. 4, n.17
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MISS CRANDALL’S SCHOOL. The Brooklyn, Con., Unionist, as we had anticipated, confirms the fact that Miss Crandall’s School at Canterbury, instead of being closed, is increasing. Unless put down by mob law, there is no way in which the school is likely to be suppressed, previous to the sitting of the Supreme Court of Errors, next July. The last Emancipator mentions that a minister of the gospel has recently been refused the privilege of preaching in the meeting house, on Canterbury green, because he had visited Miss Crandall’s School. The same account mentions that a physician, having been called to one of the pupils, in a case of emergency, gave notion that, in obedience to public sentiment, he should be obliged to decline any future call of the kind. We are inclined to think this latter item an accidental repetition of a circumstance, which, we believe, occurred some time past. We forget whether, or no, our readers were informed of it; or of the kindred circumstance that a poor washer-woman, though desirous of washing clothes for Miss Crandall’s family, was obliged to yield to the public sentiment of the village, which was outraged at so enormous a crime. As to pulling down the house, though we doubt not the existence of sufficient malice and tyranny on the part of a few, to be gratified with almost any outrage, we have no idea that any thing of the kind will be seriously attempted. Miss Crandall is gaining too many friends, and her persecutors incurring too much odium, even in that region, to admit the supposition.
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The documentation here of white Canterburian intimidation of those who have business relations with the Canterbury Female Academy is important.
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