We have received cheering intelligence from Connecticut. The famous, or, rather most infamous law called the “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state, in order to suppress Miss Crandall’s school for the education of colored females in Canterbury, has just been REPEALED by a unanimous vote in the Senate, and with only 4 dissenting votes in the House of Representatives!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celebrated ‘Blue laws’, alleged to have been enacted by the pilgrim fathers in that State not one can compare with the rescinded “Black Act” on the score of absudity, proscription, and tyranny …” (Liberator, June 8, 1838, pg 3)
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