At this meeting Andrew T.Judson denounced the policy of Miss Crandall, while the Rev.Samuel J.May ably defended it.

Judson was not only opposed to the establishment of such a school in Canterbury but in any part of the State.

He believed that colored people, who could never rise from their menial condition in the United States, should not to be encouraged to expect to elevate themselves in Connecticut.

He considered them inferior servants who should not be treated as equals of the Caucasians, but should be sent back to Africa to improve themselves and Christianize the natives.[3] On the contrary, Mr.May thought that there would never be fewer colored people in this country than were found here then and that it would be unjust to exile them.
He asserted that white people should grant Negroes their rights or lose their own and that since education is the primal, fundamental right of all men, Connecticut was the last place where this should be denied.[4] [Footnote 1: Jay, _An Inquiry_, etc., p.

30.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., pp.