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- Many attributed Judson's ascension through party ranks in part to his smooth political sagacity and in part to Prudence Crandall.†
Chpt 2.7prudence = good sense and caution
- As people in Connecticut knew all too well, Prudence Crandall was the proprietor and sole teacher at a small private academy for girls in Canterbury, a close-knit village near the border with Rhode Island.†
Chpt 2.7
- That year the school enrolled a new student, Sarah Harris, the daughter of Prudence's housecleaner.†
Chpt 2.7
- How dare Prudence Crandall teach blacks side-by-side with whites?†
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- Prudence Crandall listened to the objections, at first whispered in private, later spat right at her on the streets, and finally shouted at full volume during a packed town meeting.†
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- Prudence could see where all this was going, and she knew the townspeople would never agree to let her continue teaching black alongside white.†
Chpt 2.7
- Now, throughout Canterbury, Prudence Crandall was known as a stubborn woman, principled and resolute in her ways.†
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- Prudence remained standing and waited until the clapping died down.†
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- Prudence moved to sidestep this requirement by giving her new students residence in her own home.†
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- Instead, they broke into Prudence's house, and destroyed everything they could get their hands on.†
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- In fear for her life and the lives of her students, Prudence sent the black children back to their families and moved out west, finally settling in Kansas.†
Chpt 2.7
- Holabird was a nervous, prudent man with a broad, ruddy face, thick, curly hair and a stout, pear-shaped body.†
Chpt 2.7
- I would venture that he simply found it quite curious and thought it prudent to mention on the record.†
Chpt 2.7
- They also saw a gradual end to slavery as the most prudent way to solve the problem.†
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- Lewis had formed a committee to raise the money for Prudence CrandalPs defense.†
Chpt 2.7prudence = good sense and caution
- He was also friends with Lewis Tappan, having served as the defense lawyer for Prudence Crandall.†
Chpt 2.9
- He is the same man who declared in the Prudence Crandall case that, 'Though they may aspire to equality, it is folly to think that the African race occupies the same pedestal of development and intelligence as white men.'†
Chpt 2.9
- As any man with experience in these things will tell you, Thadeus, the only way to get on the Supreme Court is to have a sound record based on precedent, legal scholarship, and prudent judgment.†
Chpt 2.9
- What do you think old Andy Judson would say if he knew these Yale boys were doing exactly the type of educating of blacks that he ran Prudence Crandall out of the state for?†
Chpt 2.10prudence = good sense and caution
Definitions:
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(1)
(prudent) sensible and careful
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Prudence is also a female name.