...ic figure during the next thousand years--that the hamlet waits to celebrate its patron saint? Had Prudence Crandall lived in the time of Diocletian, or in the time of Savonarola, or in the time of Garibaldi , she would have had a shrine to which Americans would have flocked today. Not without immense influence was the stand she made. It cost two years of struggle, during which the Slave Power, as we...