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In March of 1835, twenty-eight whites and fourteen blacks commenced classes at newly established Noyes Academy. The school, which had several abolitionists on its board of trustees, admitted all qualified applicants, regardless of race or color.
The mixing of black and white youths set off a series of rumors through the town. Blacks would overrun Canaan; fugitive slaves would line the streets with their huts and burden the town with paupers and vagabonds; the school would become a public nuisance. `Fourteen black boys with books in their hands,’ a graduate wrote, `set the entire Granite State crazy!'”
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