Education: Document & Libraries

William Lloyd Garrison, An Address, Delivered Before the Free People of Color, in Philadelphia, New-York, and Other Cities, During the Month of June, 1831

Boston: Stephen Foster, 1831
“Anti-Slavery in New England” Digital Collection
Special Collections & University Archives, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/digital/antislavery.htm

Samuel J. May, A Discourse on Slavery in the United States, Delivered in Brooklyn, July 3, 1831

Boston: Garrison and Knapp, 1832
“Anti-Slavery in New England” Digital Collection
Special Collections & University Archives, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/digital/antislavery.htm

Prudence Crandall’s Advertisement for the Opening of her School

The Liberator (Boston, MA)
March 2, 1833
Courtesy, The Prudence Crandall Museum, Canterbury, CT

This self-conscious effort to build a multi-racial anti-slavery movement is

one of the distinguishing features of the new generation of abolitionists of the 1830s

Students at Prudence Crandall’s School for African-American Women, 1833-34

Courtesy, The Prudence Crandall Museum, Canterbury, CT

Detailed information about Prudence Crandall’s life is widely available (she was even named “Connecticut State Heroine” in 1995), but less is known about the students who also bravely confronted the racism of Canterbury’s opposition to the academy.

Henry E. Benson, “Letter to William Lloyd Garrison,” reprinted in the Fruits of Colonizationism!

Providence, RI; March 12, 1833
Fruits of Colonizationism!, pp. 2-3
Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery/index.htm

Connecticut’s “Black Law” (1833)

WHEREAS, attempts have been made to establish literary institutions in this State for the instruction of colored

persons belonging to other states and countries, which would tend to the great increase of the colored

population of the State, and thereby to the injury of the people.

American Anti-Slavery Society, American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839

New York: S. W. Benedict, 1839, page 13

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/m/mayantislavery

Samuel J. May, “Miss Prudence Crandall and the Canterbury School,” from Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict

Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869, pp. 39-72