Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832

In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a “ charming and picturesque” little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents.Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, they think in the area, but harmless enough.Until the day when the “ charming school” , led by Prudence Crandall, announces that it will now welcome Black girls... .Thirty years before the abolition of slavery, some fifteen young people in the Crandall school are greeted by a wave of hostility of insane...