The Court of Windham County, Connecticut decides State v. Crandall: The Jury, empowered through an enlightened sense of moral conviction to acquit by suspending an unjust statute, thus rendering the facts of the case irrelevant, declares Prudence Crandall, founder of the Canterbury Female Boarding School, not guilty of operating a “boarding school for colored girls.”
[restored 8/30/2026]
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Authority:
Connecticut Constitution of 1818, Article I, Sections 7, 9 and 21
www.cga.ct.gov/asp/content/constitutions/1818_Constitution.pdf
References:
Scott v. Sandford, 10 Howard (51 U.S. 393, 414, 415, (1857).
Samuel J. May, Some Recollections of Our Anti-Slavery Conflict, (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Company, 1869; New York: Arno Press, 1968), 67-69.
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