Prudence Crandall is recognized as the State Heroine of Connecticut. As a young teacher, in 1831, she had set about the business of forming the Canterbury, Connecticut Female Boarding School, a private school where young women throughout New England might come and be educated. The following year, a family of freed black persons sent their daughter, Sarah Harris, to the Canterbury Female Boarding School. The Harris family was a fine, upstanding family of freed people, and as they were... Read more