by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jun 12, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee This year marks the 150th anniversary of the first “Juneteenth” – June 19, 1865 – a day which has come to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. ...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jan 23, 2014 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent “An act to prevent slaveholding and kidnapping in Ohio” – REPEALED! “An act to prohibit the confinement of fugitives from slavery in the jails of Ohio” – REPEALED!...