Oberlin, hotbed of abolitionism [electronic resource] : college, community, and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America / J. Brent Morris.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781469618296
- 146961829X
- 326/.80977123 23
- F499.O2 M67 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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