James Bradley – from hopeless bondage to Lane Rebel

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...

William T. Allan – Lane Rebel from the South

by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Aug 12, 2013 | Abolition

by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent I’ve decided for my next two blog entries to tell the stories of two Southern rebels who had a tremendous impact on pre-Civil War Oberlin. But these weren’t Confederate rebels, they were Southern...