Hopkinton, Rhode Island
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Hopkinton is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 8,398 at the 2020 census.
First Baptist Church, Hope Valley
View of Hopkinton, c. 1860–1885
Hopkinton City Historic District in 2008
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
Hopkinton, Rhode Island
…which is currently represented by Seth Magaziner (D). Hopkinton is represented by U.S. Senator John F. Reed (D) and U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D). Prudence Crandall taught the first desegregated classroom in the United States; born in Hopkinton Edward Lee Greene, botanist; born in Hopkinton…
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