“Odious business” in Oberlin: Northern States’ Rights, Part 3

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by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent “An act to prevent slaveholding and kidnapping in Ohio” – REPEALED! “An act to prohibit the confinement of fugitives from slavery in the jails of Ohio” – REPEALED!...

Monroe’s Personal Liberty Law: Northern States’ Rights, Part 2

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...