Oberlin, hotbed of abolitionism : college, community, and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America /
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) HeinOnline Slavery in America and the World |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2014
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Facts are sometimes stranger than fiction
- To save the godless West: revivalism, abolition, and the founding of Oberlin
- The worthies of Oberlin: antislavery expansion in the late 1830s
- A city upon a hill: utopian Oberlin
- A hotbed of abolitionism
- All the truly wise or truly pious have the same end in view: Oberlin and abolitionist schism
- The tyrant's grapple by our vote, we'll loosen from our brother's throat: Oberlin, free soil, and the fight for equal rights
- We must watch and improve this tide: Oberlin confronts the slave power, 1850-1858
- That railroad center at which all branches converged: Oberlin and the underground railroad
- This drama of genuine manhood and courage: Oberlin and the fight for freedom
- Epilogue. Be not conformed to this world.
