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In this story I will focus on a woman named Prudence Crandall. She lived from 1803 - 1890. Prudence was born in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Her parents were Pardon Crandall and Esther Carpenter. Prudence moved with her family to Canterbury, Connecticut when she was ten years old.
Prudence attended the New England Friends' Boarding School in Providence, where she studied arithmetic, Latin and science - subjects not tyical for women but embraced by Quakers who believed in equal educational opportunities. She taught briefly in Plainfield, and in 1831 opened a private girl's academy in Canterbury, where she initially taught daughters from the town's wealthiest families.
Ranked as one of the state's best schools, her rigorous curriculum provided female students with an education comparable to that of prominent schools for boys.
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