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Against a pre-Civil War backdrop of violence and antagonism, three
courageous women, in different parts of the country, undertook to
teach black children. Prudence Crandall, Margaret Douglass, and
Myrtilla Miner lived, respectively, in Connecticut, Virginia, and
Washington, D.C.: they each found that racial prejudice is not
limited by geography and that people will go to great lengths to
prevent the teaching of blacks. Of the three schools they
established, only one--in the nation's capitol--proved more or less
permanent, but all three had a significant impact on American life.
Because they chose to teach black children, Miner, Douglass, and
Crandall all endured persecution and hardship. Foner and Pacheco's
important biographical study portrays three women of unusual
courage who deserve to take their places with the many brave women
of nineteenth-century America.
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