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 | 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 | Apr 2, 2014 | Abolition, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent In 1850, a young African American couple from Oberlin, acclaimed as up-and-coming spokespersons against slavery and racial injustice, gazed with optimism towards a future of bright hope for themselves, their...