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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

This memorial, originally placed in Westwood Cemetery sometime around 1865, honors the two Black Oberlin residents who were died as a result of John Brown's 1859 raid on a US arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Brown and his followers were…

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…

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…