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Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women

Name: Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252088377
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Contributors:

Jennifer Rycenga, Kazimiera Kozlowski (Foreword by)

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Education

Book Subcategory:

African American & Black, Women, History

Series:

Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

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Release Date:

2025-01-07

ISBN 13:

9780252088377

Weight:

1.21 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.21 x 0.87 inches

Pages:

328

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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 Jos? State University. She is the coeditor of Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance.

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