by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 19, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The movie 12 Years a Slave, now showing in northeast Ohio, graphically depicts several deplorable aspects of American slavery, including the fact that freeborn African Americans could be kidnapped and carried...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Oct 20, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent One of the most romanticized aspects of the Underground Railroad is the secret rooms and tunnels that were used to hide enslaved people seeking their freedom. And naturally it would be expected that a staunchly...
