This visit and interview confirmed the brave soul in her desire to change her school into one for the higher education of colored girls.

It was expected that a sufficient number of such pupils could be obtained from well-to-do colored families in cities like Boston, Providence, and New York to assure the financial success of the enterprise.

When Miss Crandall had fully matured her plans in the premises she announced them to the Canterbury public.

But if she had announced that she contemplated opening a college for the spread of contagious diseases among her townspeople, Canterbury could not possibly have been more agitated and horrified.

Every door in the village was slammed in her face.