Schooling the nation : The success of the Canterbury Academy for Black women / Jennifer Rycenga ; with a foreword by Kazimiera Kozlowski.

Introduction : a luminous moment
Crandall and Canterbury : the (un)steady state of the standing order
The women and the issues are joined : Maria Davis, Prudence Crandall, and Sarah Harris
Activating the abolitionist networks
Martyrs in the classroom : the whip and the prison
Young ladies and little misses : the Black students and their contexts
Ripples and reflections in the abolitionist networks : conventions and curriculum
Students on trial : thrice inside the courtroom
Patriarchal marriage and white violence : the closing of the Canterbury Academy
You are trying to improve your mind in every way : lives after the Academy
Conclusion : hearing all the voices.