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John Mercer Langston House
The John Mercer Langston House, built in 1855 and located on East College Street across from Eastwood Elementary School, was the home of John Mercer Langston and his family from 1856 until 1867. John Mercer Langston was an Oberlin graduate and…
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
The first women in the United States to be ordained as a minister by a recognized religious denomination, Antoinette Brown Blackwell was a lifelong crusader for women's rights. A graduate of Oberlin College, she also advocated against slavery and for…
Lucy Stone
In 1847, Lucy Stone graduated from Oberlin College, becoming the first women from Massachusetts to earn a bachelor's degree. Stone was a staunch advocate of both abolition and women's rights and she became one of the most important 19th century…
Tags: 1830-1849, 1850-1869, 1870-1889, 1890-1909, Abolition, Oberlin College, People, Women, Women's Rights
Staging an Abolitionist Society Convention
An article that offers a lesson plan for guiding middle school students through a historic role-playing exercise where they are taking part in an abolitionist society convention.
Tags: Abolition
Burrell-King House Historic Marker
Marks the site of the house built by Jabez Burrell, an important local abolitionist, and Henry Churchill King, who was president of Oberlin College from 1902-1927. Erected in 2002 by The Ohio Bicentennial Commission. The Longaberger Company. Oberlin…
Oberlin College and Community / Abolitionism in Oberlin Marker
Historic marker erected by the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, the Longaberger Co, the Oberlin Heritage Center / O.H.I.O, and the Ohio Historical Society. Front of maker is about the founding of the Oberlin College and community of Oberlin and the back…
Tags: Abolition, City of Oberlin, Historic Marker
The Oberlin Sanctuary Project: Our History of Providing Hope and Opportunity
The Oberlin Sanctuary Project provides a forum for research, reflection, and discussion of what it means to be a sanctuary campus or community. The exhibit documents Oberlin's history of providing a safe haven or help for humankind. Topics include…
Charles Grandison Finney
Charles Grandison Finney was the leading evangelist of the Second Great Awakening. He began teaching theology at Oberlin in 1835 and served as Oberlin College president between 1851 and 1865. He was also the pastor at Oberlin's First Congregational…
Tags: 1830-1849, 1850-1869, Abolition, Oberlin College
Wilson Bruce Evans
Wilson Bruce Evans was a leading member of Oberlin's 19th century African American community. He and his brother, Henry Evans, moved their families to Oberlin from North Carolina in 1854. The two men ran a successful carpentry business in town.…
Wilson Bruce Evans House
Wilson Bruce Evans and his brother, Henry Evans, were free African-Americans who lived in Oberlin. They built this house in 1855-1856 for Wilson Bruce Evans and his family. Wilson Bruce Evans was an abolitionist who participated in the 1858…
Oberlin Wellington Rescuers a the Cuyahoga County Jail, April 1859
Photo of 20 of the 37 men indicted for freeing an alleged escaped slave from his captors in Wellington, Ohio in 1858. Pictured from left to right: Jacob R. Shepherd, O.S.B. Wall, poring Wadsworth, David Watson, Wilson Bruce Evans, Eli Boise, Ralph…
Tags: Abolition, Slavery, Tappan Square
Wives, Sisters, and Daughters: Henry Woodcock’s Correspondence with the Women in his Life
A student project about a nearly half century of correspondence between Henry Woodstock, an Oberlin Theological Seminary graduate and a pastor in New England and Kansas, and his wife, sisters, and daughters. The letters address temperance and…
Tags: 1850-1869, 1870-1889, 1890-1909, Abolition, People, Student Projects, Temperance, Women, Women's Rights
“Education is as needful to the lady as to the gentleman”: The Papers of Mary Sheldon
A student projectabout the essays of Mary Sheldon, an 1852 graduate of Oberlin College who was an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights. While at Oberlin, Sheldon was a member of the Ladies' Literary Society and the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society
"As Free as Ever": The Letters of Irene Ball
A student project about Irene Ball, who did the Ladies' Course at Oberlin College from 1836 to 1837 and who was active in the abolitionist movement in Illinois. The collection consists for four of Ball's letter to mother, written between 1836 and…
Freedom's Friends
This tour is a self-guided version of the popular Freedom's Friends History Walk. The tour guides you to local landmarks connected to Oberlin's abolitionist history. Explore at your own pace while reading stories of sacrifice and freedom and seeing…
Tags: Abolition, Self-guided
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Monument
This monument, which was erected in 1990 and is located in Martin Luther King Park, commemorates the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. In that year, slave catchers captured John Price, an escapee from slavery who was living outside Oberiln. A large…
Underground Railroad Monument
Created by then college senior Cameron Armstrong in 1977, this sculpture of train tracks rising out from the ground commemorates Oberlin's importance as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Originally planned as a temporary installation, the…