by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Feb 4, 2015 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent and researcher Last week the New York Times published a blog posted by Jon Grinspan that asked the question, “was abolitionism a failure?” The author answered the question with the assertion that...
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...