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Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 - January 28, 1890) was an American schoolteacher. In 1831, she took charge of the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Connecticut. In 1832, a young woman by the name of Sarah Harris, the daughter of a free African-American farmer in the local community, asked to be accepted to the school. Many prominent townspeople objected and pressured to have Harris dismissed from the school, but Crandall refused. Consequently, Crandall ceased teaching white girls altogether and opened up her school strictly to African-American girls. In 1833, twenty African-American girls from Boston, Providence, New York, Philadelphia, and surrounding areas in Connecticut arrived at Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color. The the Connecticut legislature passed the Black Law, which prohibited a school with African-American students from outside the state without the town's permission. Crandall was arrested and placed in the county jail for one nigh...