Details
Contributor American Anti-Slavery Society.
Title Colored schools broken up, in the free states [graphic].
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1838
Date [1838]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image 4 x 8 cm. (1.75 x 3.25 in)
Description Depicts an attack on a school established by Prudence Crandall in Caterbury, Connecticut that was destroyed by a white mob in September 1834. Image shows a mob of whites raiding, torching, and throwing cobblestones at a building whose sign reads "School for colored girls." At the left, two young girls exit the side door of the school.
Is part of American anti-slavery almanac, for 1839. New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838.
Notes Illustration in the American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1839 (New York: Published for the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838), p. 15.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890,
African American girls -- Education -- Connecticut -- Canterbury.
Free African Americans -- Crimes against.
Race riots -- Connecticut -- Canterbury.
Segregation in education -- United States.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Anti-slavery prints -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1838 Ame Ant 16996.D.3 p 15
Accession number 16996.D.3