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Schooling the nation
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- Book Synopsis
- Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal action to pursue their studies, but the school of higher learning flourished until a vigilante attack destroyed the Academy. Jennifer Rycenga recovers a pioneering example of antiracism and Black-white cooperation. At once an inspirational and cautionary tale, Canterbury Academy succeeded thanks to far-reaching networks, alliances, and activism that placed it within Black, women's, and abolitionist history. Rycenga focuses on the people like Sarah Harris, the Academy's first Black student; Maria Davis, Crandall's Black housekeeper and her early connection to the embryonic abolitionist movement; and Crandall herself. Telling their stories, she highlights the agency of Black and white women within the currents, and as a force changing those currents, in nineteenth-century America. Insightful and provocative, Schooling the Nation tells the forgotten story of remarkable women and a collaboration across racial and gender lines.
- About The Author
- Jennifer Rycenga is a professor emerita of comparative religious studies and humanities at San JosÉ State University. She is the coeditor of Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780252088377
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press, (07 January 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 328
- Weight
- 513 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 235 x 156 x 25 mm
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