The opening of XII. NEGRO SCHOOL LAWS. 1619-1860
The Possibilities of the Human Intellect.--Ignorance Favorable to Slavery.--An Act by the Legislature of Alabama imposing a Penalty on any one instructing a Colored Person.--Educational Privileges of the Creoles in the City of Mobile.--Prejudice against Colored Schools in Connecticut.--The Attempt of Miss Prudence Crandall to admit Colored Girls into her School at Canterbury.--The Indignation of the Citizens at this Attempt to mix the Races in Education.--The Legislature of Connecticut passes a Law abolishing the School.--The Building assaulted by a Mob.--Miss Crandall arrested and imprisoned for teaching Colored Children against the Law.--Great Excitement.--The Law finally repealed.--An Act by the Legislature of Delaware taxing Persons who brought into, or sold Slaves out of, the State.--Under Act of 1829 Money received for the Sale of Slaves in Florida was added to the School Fund in that State.--Georgia prohibits the Education of Colored Persons under Heavy Penalty.--Illinois establishes Separate Schools for Colored Children.--The "Free Mission Institute" at Quincy, Illinois, destroyed by a Missouri Mob.--Numerous and Cruel Slave Laws in Kentucky retard the Education of the Negroes.--An Act passed in Louisiana preventing the Negroes in any Way from being instructed.--Maine gives Equal School Privileges to Whites and Blacks.--St.