On this day in the town of Canaan in New Hampshire, white segregationists put an end to the first racially integrated school in America, the Noyes Academy. The Academy was founded by New England men sympathetic to the abolitionist movement, including Samuel Noyes, and on its opening admitted 28 white and 14 black students including several future prominent African-American abolitionists. Local residents, stirred up by segregationists, voted to remove the school as a ‘public nuisance‘. The removal consisted in seventy-five members of Canaan and neighbouring towns, together with nearly a hundred yoked oxen, literally pulling the school off its foundations and dragging it to a nearby swamp. They then attacked the home of George Kimball, where several of the students were at the time boarding and eventually forced both the black students and the black teachers to flee from Canaan.
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Is that Canaan the same place where, at a wedding, our Lord Jesus turned water into wine? I’ve always been so fascinated by that sort of magical event!
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I can quite understand your fascination, Paolo, and I feel that our Lord Jesus could have been so kind as to leave a written note regarding his magic formula. I believe however, that we are talking here about a different Canaan since it is located on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
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