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By exploring the role of Oberlin — the college and the community — in fighting against slavery and for social equality, J. Brent Morris establishes this “hotbed of abolitionism” as the core of the antislavery movement in the West and as one of the most influential reform groups in antebellum America. As the first college to admit men and women of all races, and with a faculty and community comprised of outspoken abolitionists, Oberlin supported a cadre of activist missionaries devoted to emancipation, even if that was through unconventional methods or via an abandonment of strict ideological consistency. Their philosophy was a color-blind composite of various schools of antislavery t...
In this captivating tale, Randolph Paul Runyon follows the trail of the first woman imprisoned for assisting runaway slaves and explores the mystery surrounding her life and work. In September 1844, Delia Webster took a break from her teaching responsibilities at Lexington Female Academy and accompanied Calvin Fairbank, a Methodist preacher from Oberlin College, on a Saturdary drive in the country. At the end of their trip, their passengers--Lewis Hayden and his family--remained in southern Ohio, ticketed for the Underground Railroad. Webster and Fairbank returned to a near riot and jail cells. Webster earned a sentence to the state penitentiary in Frankfort, where the warden, Newton Craig, ...
"Jonathan Fairebanke (Fairbank, Fairbanks) came from Sowerby in West Riding of Yorkshire, England to Boston, Mass., in the year 1633, and in 1636 settled in Dedham, Mass, where he built the noted "Old Fairbanks House"...He was born in England before the year 1600...when he settled in Dedham,...[he] was one of the earliest pioneers...he died in Dedham, Dec. 5, 1668. His wife's name was Grace Lee. She died 28th 10 m. 1673 or 19: 3: 1676. Their children [were] all born in England..."--P. 9, 31. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire , New York, Indiana, New Jersey, Vermont, Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Missouri, Michigan, California, Iowa, Illinois, New Jersey, Utah, Canada and elsewhere.
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Interviews and excerpts from diaries, letters, biographies, memoirs, speeches, and other firsthand accounts shed much light on the origins of a system that provided aid to fugitive slaves. 46 black-and-white illustrations.