A Canterbury Tale: A Document Package for Connecticut's Prudence Crandall Affair

Primary Sources 

(Organized Chronologically)

Prudence Crandall, “Letter to Simeon Jocelyn (February 26, 1833),” published in “Abolition Letters Collected by Captain Arthur B. Spingarn,” Journal of Negro History, vol. XVIII, 1933, p. 80-81.

“Advertisement and notice regarding the opening of a ‘High School for Young Colored Ladies and Misses,’ “ The Liberator, March 2, 1833.

Henry B. Benson, “Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (March 12, 1833),” published in Fruits of Colonization, 1833.

Andrew T. Judson, et al, “Appeal to the American Colonization Society (March 22, 1833),” published in Fruits of Colonization, 1833.

Prudence Crandall, “Letter to Simeon Jocelyn (April 9, 1833),” published in “Abolition Letters Collected by Captain Arthur B. Spingarn,” Journal of Negro History, vol. XVIII, 1933, p. 81-82.

Prudence Crandall, “Letter to Simeon Jocelyn (April 17, 1833),” published in “Abolition Letters Collected by Captain Arthur B. Spingarn,” Journal of Negro History, vol. XVIII, 1933, p. 82-84.

“More Barbarism! (Editorial Remarks and Summons for Eliza Ann Hammond to Appear, dated April 22, 1833),” published in Fruits of Colonization, 1833.

Pardon Crandall, et al, “Letter to Andrew T. Judson and Chester Lyon (May 5, 1833),” published in Fruits of Colonization, 1833.

Pardon Crandall, et al, “The Memorial of Pardon Crandall, of Canterbury (May 5, 1833),” published in Fruits of Colonization, 1833.

Prudence Crandall, “Letter to the Windham County Advertiser (May 7, 1833),” published in Fruits of Colonization, 1833.

Connecticut General Assembly, “An act in addition to an Act entitled ‘An Act for the admission and settlement of Inhabitants of Towns’ ” (May 24, 1833).

“Four little children here you see…” (a song composed in support of Prudence Crandall), June, 1833.

A Statement of Facts, Respecting the School for Colored Females, in Canterbury, Ct. Together With a Report of the Late Trial of Miss Prudence Crandall, Brooklyn, CT: 1833. Advertiser Press.

Andrew T. Judson, Andrew T. Judson’s Remarks to the Jury, on the Trial of the Case State v. P. Crandall. Superior Court, Oct. Term, 1833. Windham County, Ct. Hartford: John Russell, Printer.

William W. Ellsworth, “Argument of William W. Ellsworth, in the case of the State of Connecticut vs. PRUDENCE CRANDALL [excerpts].” Delivered before the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut, July, 1834.

Calvin Goddard, “Argument of Calvin Goddard, in the case of the State of Connecticut vs. PRUDENCE CRANDALL [excerpt].” Delivered before the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut, July, 1834.

Andrew T. Judson, “Argument of Andrew T. Judson, in the case of the State of Connecticut vs. PRUDENCE CRANDALL [excerpt].” Delivered before the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut, July, 1834.

Edward S. Abdy, Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States, Vol. 1. London: 1835, p. 193-214.

Samuel J. May, “Miss Prudence Crandall and the Canterbury School,” Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & co., 1869, p. 39-72.