by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 17, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee Frances (“Fanny”) Jackson came to Oberlin in 1860 with a dream – a dream “to get an education and to teach my people”, she said. “This idea was deep in...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 23, 2015 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher, and trustee July 23, 2015 In my last blog, I wrote about how Juneteenth became a national celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. But before there was a Juneteenth, there was the...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Feb 4, 2015 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent and researcher Last week the New York Times published a blog posted by Jon Grinspan that asked the question, “was abolitionism a failure?” The author answered the question with the assertion that...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 19, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The movie 12 Years a Slave, now showing in northeast Ohio, graphically depicts several deplorable aspects of American slavery, including the fact that freeborn African Americans could be kidnapped and carried...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Sep 5, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent Seven years before the celebrated abolitionist Frederick Douglass first stood before a sympathetic audience of white abolitionists and “trembling in every limb” told them the story of his life as a...