Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women by Rycenga, Jennifer

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

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women...
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Author: Jennifer Rycenga
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Schooling the Nation: The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women by Rycenga, Jennifer

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

BD$66.48

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

BD$66.48
Author: Jennifer Rycenga
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



Author: Jennifer Rycenga
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
ISBN: 9780252088377

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