The+Forbidden+Schoolhouse

==Ally,  Kristin, Lidya,  Jen, Aubrey == The Forbidden Schoolhouse by: Suzanne Jurmain

Characters:

-__Prudence Crandall:__ Main character who is a school teacher in Connecticut. She teaches white students and then gears more toward teaching black people. Decides to open up her own school for black people. -__Sarah Harris Fayerweather:__ Prudence's first black student -__Andrew Judson:__ Prudence's enemy, he was a man generally known for his "tact and courtesy" -__Ester Crandall:__ Prudence's mother and despite the threats her mom and dad received, they supported their daughter with her school. -__Hezekiah Crandall:__ He is Prudence's older brother who hauled supplies to the school even though he knew that helping his sister might hurt his business. -__Samuel Joseph May:__ Her good friend and her advisor. -__William Lloyd Garrison:__ Editor of the //Liberator.// -__Arthur Tappan:__ The wealthy New York abolitionist who paid Prudence's legal bills and started a newspaper to help support her cause. -__Helen Benson Garrison:__ Married to William Lloyd Garrison and one of Prudence's best friends.

Important Dates:

October 1831- the Female Canterbury Boarding School officially opened 1831- a great national battle over slavery was beginning and Americans were taking sides 1832- Mariah's friend Sarah Harris asked to speak with Prudence January 1833- a new student named Sarah Harris took her seat at one of the desks in her classroom January 18, 1833- Prudence began writing a letter to Mr. William Llyod Garrison who was an abolitionist and an editor at the LIberator 1831- only twenty-five of Garrison's five-hundred subscribers were white Febuary 24- four very powerful men in Canterbury held a meeting to discuss Prudence's new school Saturday, March 2, 1833- readers of the Liberator noticed a small advertisement in the far right column of the paper 1833- Prudence would not be able to speak or vote at the town meetings Monday, April 1- Opening Day: she had two students Sarah Harris and Eliza Glasko April 12- seventeen year old Ann Eliza Hammond came to Prudence's school from Providence, Connecticut April 13 at 7 o'clock- the sheriff delivered a warning saying that they were breaking a law made in 1650 that someone from out of state needs the approval of the town to stay there or every week a $1.68 fine May 24, 1833- the legislature passed a statute that became known as the Connecticut Black Law, which said that no one can set up a school or educate colored people who do not live in state.

__Overview of the Plot:__ A women named Prudence Crandall opened a school in Canterbury Connecticut in 1831. It was a boarding school for only white children and was one of the top schools in the area, and it was also one of the top ranked private girls academies in the state. The surroundings and the environment of the school and town were very nice and looked like as it came right out of a picture. Prudence expected her children to be able to read & write, do math, history, philosophy and astronomy which were all apart of the schools curriculum. But when she admitted a black student to her class named Sara Fayerweather, everyone got concerned. Parents didn't want their children going to school with a black child, so Prudence decided to open up her own school for only colored girls. People were outraged, and some went overboard with it. People wouldn't sell her things in certain stores, and people threw eggs at the windows of the school because they were very furious with Crandall. She believed that blacks and whites were equal and that black people had the same rights as whites did.


 * Mr. Judson knew that without students the school would not be able to stay open. The participants of the previous Canterbury town meeting sent the petition to the Connecticut legislature. The legislature asked to pass the law that would prevent African Americans who lived out of state from visiting Connecticut. After a few weeks Mr. Judson was able to collect 903 signatures and he was able to take it to be seen by the Connecticut Legislature located in Hartford. Even though 903 was not the majority of people in Connecticut the state legislatures worried that it would cause a lot of out of state African Americans to move to Connecticut.


 * They tried to carry on with their regular schedule and lesson plans. William Burleigh was her assistant teacher.


 * Prudence was trying to be a proper nineteenth century women, but she could not take it any more and wrote a letter to the local newspaper.