{"product_id":"schooling-the-nation-2","title":"Schooling the Nation","description":"Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal action to pursue their studies, but the school of higher learning flourished until a vigilante attack destroyed the Academy. \u003cp\u003eJennifer Rycenga recovers a pioneering example of antiracism and Black-white cooperation. At once an inspirational and cautionary tale, Canterbury Academy succeeded thanks to far-reaching networks, alliances, and activism that placed it within Black, women’s, and abolitionist history. Rycenga focuses on the people like Sarah Harris, the Academy’s first Black student; Maria Davis, Crandall’s Black housekeeper and her early connection to the embryonic abolitionist movement; and Crandall herself. Telling their stories, she highlights the agency of Black and white women within the currents, and as a force changing those currents, in nineteenth-century America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eInsightful and provocative, \u003ci\u003eSchooling the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e tells the forgotten story of remarkable women and a collaboration across racial and gender lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Jennifer Rycenga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54958537310588,"sku":"9780252047589","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780252047589.jpg?v=1740059785","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/schooling-the-nation-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}