Hope Valley, Rhode Island
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Hope Valley is a village and census-designated place in the town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island, United States. As of the 2020 census, Hope Valley had a population of 1,870. Hope Valley is the largest vil
First Baptist Church
Prudence Crandall
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Prudence Crandall was an American schoolteacher and activist. She ran the Canterbury Female Boarding School in Canterbury, Connecticut, which became the first known school for African American girls i
Hope Valley, Rhode Island
…2.9% of families and 3.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under the age of 18 and 5.7% of those 65 and older. Prudence Crandall, who established a pioneering school for African-American girls, was born in 1803 in the area that is now Hope Valley. A granite marker erected in her…
Crandall, 1834 portrait by Francis Alexander
Prudence Crandall Went to Jail for Teaching Colored Students.
Samuel J. May's pamphlet protesting Andrew T. Judson's and others unjust treatment of Crandall and her school for "Colored" females