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245 10 a| Schooling the nation :b| the success of the Canterbury Academy for Black women /c| Jennifer Rycenga ; with a foreword by Kazimiera Kozlowski.;

246 30 a| Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black women;

264 1 a| Urbana :b| University of Illinois Press,c| [2025];

300 a| xxi, 310 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Women, gender, and sexuality in American history;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : a luminous moment -- Crandall and Canterbury : the (un)steady state of the standing order -- The women and the issues are joined : Maria Davis, Prudence Crandall, and Sarah Harris -- Activating the abolitionist networks -- Martyrs in the classroom : the whip and the prison -- Young ladies and little misses : the Black students and their contexts -- Ripples and reflections in the abolitionist networks : conventions and curriculum -- Students on trial : thrice inside the courtroom -- Patriarchal marriage and white violence : the closing of the Canterbury Academy -- You are trying to improve your mind in every way : lives after the Academy -- Conclusion : hearing all the voices.;

520 a| "Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Campbell, 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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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700 1 a| Kozlowski, Kazimiera,e| author of foreword.=| ^A1481415;

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Schooling the nation : the success of the Canterbury Academy for Black women / Jennifer Rycenga ; with a foreword by Kazimiera Kozlowski.

Author/creator	Rycenga, Jennifer author.
Other author	Kozlowski, Kazimiera, author of foreword.
Format	Book
Publication	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2025]
Description	xxi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890. Canterbury Female Boarding School (Canterbury, Conn.) African American women--Education. --Connecticut. --Canterbury. --History. --19th century. Canterbury (Conn.)--Race relations. --History. --19th century.

Portion of title	Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black women
Series	Women, gender, and sexuality in American history Women, gender, and sexuality in American history. ^A1319123
Contents	Introduction : a luminous moment -- Crandall and Canterbury : the (un)steady state of the standing order -- The women and the issues are joined : Maria Davis, Prudence Crandall, and Sarah Harris -- Activating the abolitionist networks -- Martyrs in the classroom : the whip and the prison -- Young ladies and little misses : the Black students and their contexts -- Ripples and reflections in the abolitionist networks : conventions and curriculum -- Students on trial : thrice inside the courtroom -- Patriarchal marriage and white violence : the closing of the Canterbury Academy -- You are trying to improve your mind in every way : lives after the Academy -- Conclusion : hearing all the voices.
Abstract	"Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Campbell, 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Rycenga, Jennifer. Schooling the nation Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2025] 9780252047589
LCCN	2024020279
ISBN	9780252046308 hardcover
ISBN	0252046307 hardcover
ISBN	9780252088377 paperback
ISBN	0252088379 paperback
ISBN	electronic book

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