by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 19, 2016 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee The recent Presidential election, in which Ohio continued its recent trend of flip-flopping between blue and red every 8 years, got me thinking about early Ohio history. It was even worse...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | May 26, 2014 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It was February 4, 1861, and the United States of America was coming unglued. On this date Oberlin residents gathered together to pray and discuss their response. Three months earlier the country, Oberlin...
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...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jan 23, 2014 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent “An act to prevent slaveholding and kidnapping in Ohio” – REPEALED! “An act to prohibit the confinement of fugitives from slavery in the jails of Ohio” – REPEALED!...
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...
