Les, explain please.
Hi Stro!
Good to see you, my friend. Yes, they drug the learning center from its foundation… .
It shows the depravity and inhumanity that pervaded the era.
Folks like the Alabamians—I’m sure you saw the melee—have not learned what life is really about, meanwhile.
Today, 1835, in the town of Canaan in the “live free or die” state of New Hampshire, a drunken mob of approximately 500 destroyed the integrated Noyes Academy. The Academy was one of two schools in the country founded by abolitionists and the first upper level coed interracial school in the United States. The student body consisted of 28 white students and 14 African Americans including future leaders of note such as Henry Highland Garnet and Alexander Crummell. As news of the opening of the school spread, anti-abolitionists from the area posted road signs directing travelers to Nigggertown.” The pro-slavery newspaper The New Hampshire Patriot carried the following article: “Since the establishment of the school, it has been no uncommon spectacle to witness colored gentlemen walking arm in arm with what ought to be respectable white females. And that respectable people opposed to the school, as well as others, have been invited to parties where the colored portion of the school were also invited guests.”The mob used 100 oxen to pull the school off its foundation and drag it a mile down the road. Below, a painting of Noyes Academy Removal by Mikel Wellsa:
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