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...
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. ...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jun 19, 2013 | Abolition, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent Did you know that Oberlin was the scene of a series of heated public debates featuring renowned abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass and their colleagues in the 1840s? Well, it was, and if...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Apr 9, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent In my last blog entry, A Tale of Two Abolitionist Towns, I mentioned an Oberlin resident named Lewis Clarke (sometimes spelled Clark), who was born into slavery but eventually escaped, made his way north, and...
