by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 19, 2016 | Abolition
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee The recent Presidential election, in which Ohio continued its recent trend of flip-flopping between blue and red every 8 years, got me thinking about early Ohio history. It was even worse...
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 | Jul 25, 2014 | Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent The party was such a success that it would make the local paper. Fifty guests crowded into the house on South Water Street (present day Park Street) – among them the Mayor of Oberlin, Civil War veterans,...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | May 26, 2014 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It was February 4, 1861, and the United States of America was coming unglued. On this date Oberlin residents gathered together to pray and discuss their response. Three months earlier the country, Oberlin...
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by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent “An act to prevent slaveholding and kidnapping in Ohio” – REPEALED! “An act to prohibit the confinement of fugitives from slavery in the jails of Ohio” – REPEALED!...