Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.: they each found that racial prejudice is not limited by geography and that people will go to great lengths to prevent the teaching of blacks. Of the three schools they established, only one--in the nation's capitol--proved more or less permanent, ...
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Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.: they each found that racial prejudice is not limited by geography and that people will go to great lengths to prevent the teaching of blacks. Of the three schools they established, only one--in the nation's capitol--proved more or less permanent, but all three had a significant impact on American life. Because they chose to teach black children, Miner, Douglass, and Crandall all endured persecution and hardship. Foner and Pacheco's important biographical study portrays three women of unusual courage who deserve to take their places with the many brave women of nineteenth-century America.
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Good. Size: 5x0x8; Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. xviii, 234 p., ill., 22 cm. This book recounts the attempts of three women to educate blacks between the 1830's and the Civil War, a period during which, even in the North and the Middle West, there was little concern for the education of blacks because they did not belong to the body politic. All three women endured persecution and hardship, but they provided antislavery agitators with proof of the handicaps blacks suffered. Prudence Crandall, when the admission of a black girl to her boarding school was resisted, decided to open a school exclusively for black girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, in 1833. This led to her arrest (although she was ultimately acquitted) and violence against herself, the pupils and the school building. In 1852, Margaret Douglass opened a school in Norfolk, Virginia, for free black children. By so doing she broke the laws of the state. She was prosecuted and found guilty and so went to jail for teaching free black children to read. From 1851 onwards Myrtilla Miner struggled to ensure the education of free black girls in Washington D.C. and succeeded in establishing a school that eventually became a college for training black teachers.
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