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Letter to Editor
August 3, 1833
The Liberator
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
What is this article about?
Eliza expresses joy at Prudence Crandall's plan to open a school for colored girls, laments her persecution and imprisonment, praises her fortitude, and proposes that Christian ladies pray daily for her success.
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[For the Liberator.]
TO CHRISTIAN LADIES.
My heart was full of joy when I learned that Miss Crandall was about to open a school for the instruction of colored misses. I did not think it possible, that she would be treated as she has been. She has been assailed by the tongue of slander—she has been persecuted, abused and imprisoned, for her benevolent and self-denying labors. But she has borne it all with the patience and fortitude of a martyr. She needs our sympathy, and our prayers; need I say that she is entitled to them? Now I wish to propose to my female friends, who desire the success of her school, that they set apart a short time every day, to pray in secret for the blessing of God to rest upon her in her afflictions.
ELIZA.
TO CHRISTIAN LADIES.
My heart was full of joy when I learned that Miss Crandall was about to open a school for the instruction of colored misses. I did not think it possible, that she would be treated as she has been. She has been assailed by the tongue of slander—she has been persecuted, abused and imprisoned, for her benevolent and self-denying labors. But she has borne it all with the patience and fortitude of a martyr. She needs our sympathy, and our prayers; need I say that she is entitled to them? Now I wish to propose to my female friends, who desire the success of her school, that they set apart a short time every day, to pray in secret for the blessing of God to rest upon her in her afflictions.
ELIZA.
What sub-type of article is it?
Emotional
Persuasive
Religious
What themes does it cover?
Education
Slavery Abolition
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Prudence Crandall
Colored Girls School
Persecution
Prayer
Christian Sympathy
Abolition Education
What entities or persons were involved?
Eliza.
Christian Ladies
Letter to Editor Details
Author
Eliza.
Recipient
Christian Ladies
Main Argument
propose that christian ladies set apart time daily to pray in secret for god's blessing on miss crandall amid her afflictions from opening a school for colored girls.
Notable Details
Compares Crandall To A Martyr
Assailed By Slander, Persecuted, Abused, Imprisoned