Presently there came to her a colored girl who was thirsting for an education such as the Canterbury Boarding School for young ladies was dispensing to white girls.

This was Miss Crandall's opportunity to do something for the colored people, and she admitted the girl to her classes.

But she had no sooner done so than there were angry objections to the girl's remaining.
"The wife of an Episcopal clergyman who lived in the village," Miss Crandall records, "told me that if I continued that colored girl in my school it would not be sustained." She heroically refused to turn the colored pupil out of the school, and thereby caused a most extraordinary exhibition of Connecticut chivalry and Christianity.
Seeing how matters stood with her in these circumstances, Prudence Crandall conceived the remarkable purpose of devoting her school to the education of colored girls exclusively.

She did not know whether her idea was practicable, and so in her perplexity she turned for counsel to the editor of the _Liberator_.

She went to Boston for this purpose, and there, at the old Marlboro' Hotel, on Washington street, on the evening of January 29, 1833, she discussed this business with Mr.Garrison.