Read Part One HERE
In this blog I continue to focus on a woman named Sarah Harris Fayerweather. She lived from 1812 - 1878. As for Miss Crandall, at whose school Sarah taught, she was arrested three times for violating the Black Law, and spent a night in jail. The students testified on her behalf at the trial. Miss Crandall was convicted, but on July 1834, her case was overturned by the Connecticut Supreme Court on a technicality. Shortly thereafter, the Canterbury Female Boarding School was attacked by a mob. For the safety of her students, Miss Crandall decided to permanently close the school.
By this time, Sarah had left the school. She had married George Fayerweather in 1833. The couple moved to New London, Connecticutt in 1841 before moving to Kingston, Rhode Island, in 1855. Sarah supported abolitionism and racial equality. She joined the Kingston Anti-Slavery Society, attended anti-slavery meetings held by the American Anti-Slavery Society in various cities acrosss the North, and maintained a correspondence with former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. She also maintained an active church life, joining the Sunday School class at Kingston's Congregational Church.
Sarah died in 1878.
Read Part One Hundred And Nineteen HERE
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