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 | Nov 22, 2013 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War, Reconstruction Era
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It’s no secret that one of the primary goals of Oberlin College in its first decades of existence was to train Americans to become missionaries who would go out into the world and crusade against slavery...
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...
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 | Aug 12, 2013 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent I’ve decided for my next two blog entries to tell the stories of two Southern rebels who had a tremendous impact on pre-Civil War Oberlin. But these weren’t Confederate rebels, they were Southern...
