Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage
Yates, Elizabeth![Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/287/28760687/CHSBZCOP0328760687.jpg)
By the author of the prizewinning Amos Fortune, Free Man, this is a quietly but firmly dramatized biography of a woman whose activities pointedly revealed the rakishly eddying feelings about the Negroes before the Civil War. In 1833 Prudence Crandall had established herself as mistress of a small private school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, and was receiving praise for her work from all quarters. But when she decided to take in a Negro...