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    #PrudenceOTP - HerStory
    theopentheatre
    • Jan 8, 2018
    • 3 min

    #PrudenceOTP - HerStory

    This blog was written by Historian, Beth Miller as part of our on-going series featuring the women of An Education in Prudence and the history behind the show. Prudence Crandall was born in on September 3, 1803 to Pardon and Esther Crandall. She and her family lived in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, until Pardon moved the family to Canterbury in 1830. Pardon Crandall was a farmer, who was a Quaker and who believed in education for all of his children. Prudence attended the Friend’
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    #PrudenceOTP - The Journey from Classroom to Stage
    theopentheatre
    • Dec 6, 2017
    • 2 min

    #PrudenceOTP - The Journey from Classroom to Stage

    This blog was written by Historian, Beth Miller as part of our on-going series featuring the history behind the show and how it came to be. A feminist awakening led me back to try college for a third time to major in Women’s Studies. My first class was WS 101, a survey course that covered much, in brief. My professor told us about Prudence Crandall who in a letter to William Lloyd Garrison penned on January 18, 1833 asked his opinion on “exchanging” her “white students for
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