In such sorry contradictions and cruelties did American prejudice against color involve American Christianity and humanity.
This outrage was perpetrated in 1831.

Two years afterward Connecticut enacted altogether the most shameful crime in her history.

There lived in the year 1833, in the town of Canterbury, in that State, an accomplished young Quaker woman, named Prudence Crandall.

Besides a superior education, she possessed the highest character.

And this was well; for she was the principal of the Female Boarding School located in that town.