by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 28, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It was May 27, 1857, four years before the start of the American Civil War. On this day an armed confrontation over the issue of states’ rights would occur between forces of the United States federal...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 7, 2013 | Abolition, Reconstruction Era
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent “Oberlin commenst this war. Oberlin wuz the prime cause uv all the trubble.” Thus spoke the Reverend Petroleum V. Nasby, one of the most well-known American cartoon characters of the Civil War era. ...
