by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Apr 7, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent and researcher [Warning – the following text contains some racist language in its original, historic context] In the evening mist of April 11, 1865, Oberlin’s African American political leader, John...
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 | 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 8, 2014 | Abolition
By David Fiske, Co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave, Praeger, 2013. Though Louisiana is the primary setting for the film 12 Years a Slave, there is a connection between Oberlin and one of the characters featured in...
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...
