Connecticut repeals its ‘Black Act’

GREAT CHANGE IN CONNECTICUT    We have received cheering intelligence from Connecticut.  The famous, or, rather, infamous law called the ‘Black Act’, passed without opposition three or four years since by the legislature of that state, in order to suppress Miss Crandall’s school, for the education of colored females at Canterbury, has just been REPEALED by an unanimous vote in the Senate, and with only 4 dissenting voices in the House of Representatives!  Of all the celebrated ‘Blue Laws’, alleged to have been enacted by the pilgrim fathers in that State, not one can compare with the rescinded ‘Black Act’ on the score of absurdity proscription, and tyranny.    ………  The ball of revolution is rolling onward with surprising rapidity.

                                                            (Liberator, June 8, 1838, pg 3)