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Image Source: Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator. Elisha Payne House, Canterbury, Windham County, CT. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/ct0227/

In 1833, Prudence Crandall the principal of the Canterbury Female Boarding School started enrolling African Americans students. In September of 1834, a mob attacked the school and soon after the school was closed. The act of educating African Americans and the mob violence against educational in the 1830’s freedom made national and international news. These events helped galvanize the abolitionist movement throughout the United States of America.

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