Restrictions on educational opportunities for African Americans in the North could be as severe as those in the slaveholding South. One example occurred in 1832 in Canterbury, Connecticut, when PrudenceiCrandall invited a young African American girl to attend her otherwise all-white boarding school. Parents of the other girls protested, and when Crandall refused to remove the new student, they withdrew their daughters. Undaunted by these actions, Crandall, with the help, of abolitionist newspaperman William Lloyd Garrison, opted to transform the school into one exclusively "for young colored ladiesand Misses.". The townspeople responded with hostility and violence. Students were openly insulted. The building was repeatedly vandalized. Crandall refused to surrender even as town leaders appealed to the state legislature for aid in removing,what, was referred to as the "nigger school." On 24 May 1834 the Connecticut legislature passed a law prohibiting schools for "colored...