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 violent deeds. The press, on its arrival, was safely stored, and about twelve friends remained with it to protect it. Before long the building was attacked, stones were thrown, windows broken, and shots fired. Cries of "Burn them out," "Fire the building, and shoot every cursed Abolitionist," were heard, and ladders being brought the roof of the building was fired. Five of the defenders came out, and, firing on the crowd, dispersed them. Later, Mr. Lovejoy and two friends came out. They were fired upon, one friend was wounded, and Mr. Lovejoy received five balls—three in his breast—and expired instantly. The rest immediately offered to surrender but were refused, and one of the little band, trying to come to terms with the rioters, was badly wounded. The mob seized the press, and, breaking it into fragments as before, cast it into the Mississippi. The next day Elijah Lovejoy's body was taken to his house "amid the heartless rejoicing and scoffings of those who had destroyed his property and taken his life."

It was not unnatural that slaveholders should desire to keep colored people in the darkest ignorance, and should permit as few as possible to learn to read. They could not always destroy printing presses, and occasionally it was not altogether convenient to murder men determined to expose the evils of slavery. Consequently there were but few colored schools, and in 1831 the free colored people held a convention in Philadelphia, to which delegates were sent from the several States. It was resolved to try to establish a collegiate school at New Haven in Connecticut. Connecticut was justly celebrated for its educational institutions, but the proposal to add another jewel to its crown of honor, by the establishment of an institution for the education and higher culture of colored youth, met with the most determined opposition. A meeting, summoned by the Mayor of New Haven, resolved to "resist the establishment of the proposed college in this place by any lawful means." Only one person had the courage to oppose this resolution. The colored people being thus frustrated in their attempts to educate their youth in Connecticut, the trustees of the Noyes Academy, Canaan, in the neighboring State of New Hampshire, opened their doors to colored students, who gladly seized the opportunity, but, alas, were not left long to enjoy it. In 1835 the New Hampshire Patriot, related how a committee appointed for that purpose at a town's meeting, aided by three hundred persons, including the most respectable and wealthy farmers in the neighborhood, and 100 yoke of oxen, took the building away.

Miss Prudence Crandall—a Quaker lady with a high reputation as a teacher—established a school in Canterbury for the higher education of girls. Shortly after starting her school she admitted a colored girl named Sarah Harris, who was very desirous of getting "a little more learning—enough to teach