Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism : College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America /

Oberlin, Hotbed of Abolitionism: College, Community, and the Fight for Freedom and Equality in Antebellum America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Morris, J. Brent (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Oberlin College
Egalitarismus
Abolitionismus
Antislavery movements.
Abolitionists.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Abolitionnistes > Ohio > Oberlin > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > Ohio > Oberlin > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Abolitionists > Ohio > Oberlin > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > Ohio > Oberlin > History > 19th century.
Oberlin, Ohio
Ohio > Oberlin.
Oberlin (Ohio) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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