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Miss Prudence Crandall and the Canterbury School,

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

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, and some thirty-five years after the Prudence Crandall incident, the Reverend Samuel J. May published his memoirs, Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict. In his memoir, May provides a detailed account of the incidents surrounding the Canterbury School. The book in its entirety is available onlinethrough University of Michigan’s “Making of American Books” project.