The institution was, in 1833, at the beginning of its third year, and in a flourishing condition.

While pursuing her vocation of a teacher, Miss Crandall made the acquaintance of the _Liberator_ through a "nice colored girl," who was at service in the school.

Abhorring slavery from childhood, it is no wonder that the earnestness of the _Liberator_ exerted an immediate and lasting influence upon the sympathies of the young principal.

The more she read and the more she thought upon the subject the more aroused she became to the wrongs of which her race was guilty to the colored people.

She, too, would lend them a helping hand in their need.