Schooling the Nation

Jennifer Rycenga is a professor emerita of comparative religious studies and humanities at San JosÉ State University. She is the coeditor of Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance.

• Foreword    Kazimiera Kozlowski Preface Acknowledgments 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 he 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 Notes Bibliography Index

“Jennifer Rycenga’s book is a brilliant work of scholarship that positions the Black and Brown young women of the Canterbury Female Boarding School as leaders in their own fight for education and early civil rights. Dr. Rycenga has accomplished what few scholars have done: to use history as a roadmap for today to seek justice in education and continue the work of Maria Davis, Sarah Harris, and Prudence Crandall. Dr. Rycenga’s research has changed the way this story is told.”--Joan M. DiMartino, Museum Curator and Site Superintendent, Prudence Crandall Museum “Original and enlightening. Delving deeply, Rycenga explores Crandall’s life and influences while revealing the students who attended the Academy as members of a remarkable group.”--Julie Winch, author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten