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Title	History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue
Subject	African American Ohioans Civil Liberties Religion in Ohio Fugitive slaves Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858 Underground Railroad
Place	Oberlin (Ohio) Wellington (Ohio) Cleveland (Ohio) Lorain County (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description	This 280-page book is an account of the rescue of fugitive slave John Price in Oberlin, Ohio and subsequent legal proceedings. Price was a seventeen-year-old slave from Kentucky living in Oberlin. Two slave catchers and two federal marshals arrested him on September 1858 and took him to nearby Wellington to catch a train heading south. Local anti-slavery advocates freed Price, who after a brief stay in the Oberlin home of Professor James Fairchild continued on the Underground Railroad to Canada. The book measures 6" x 9" (15 x 23 cm) Members of the Baptist Church presented this copy Reverend Levi Farnsworth, assistant pastor of the Baptist Church in Sullivan, Ohio, as a token of their appreciation in 1871. The author, Jacob R. Shipherd, was the nephew of John Jay Shipherd, one of the founders of Oberlin College. He graduated from Oberlin and became a Congregational minister. Professor Henry Peck and the Honorable Ralph Plumb, who also participated in the rescue, wrote the forward to the book. It is dedicated "to the thirty-seven indicted, and to all who with them believe in the doctrines of the declaration of American independence." Thirty-seven members of the crowd who rescued Price were indicted in federal court. Twenty-one were arrested and sent to the Cuyahoga County Jail for about a month. When the slave catchers and marshals were charged with kidnapping, each side agreed to drop the charges against the other. The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case was influential in raising opposition to the Fugitive Slave Act, one of the factors that lead to the Civil War.
Creator	Shipherd, Jacob R.
Date of Original	1859
Source	Published material
Submitting Institution	Oberlin College Archives
Type	Text

Title	Om215_622810_001
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Image Height	3648
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Full Text	Sullivan Dec 3 rd[superscript] 1871 This Book is presented to the Rev Levi Farnsworth (By the donors) not so much for its apparent or typographical worth [illegible], a keepsake or memento from them giving as it does a time history of what transpired in our own immediate encircling within the past generation The donors offer it that the receiver may see that when he contrasts the present with the past as here recorded, and compares the present Status of what is now Considered a part of American freemen With what their political or Legal Status was considered by the history of Them [caret] as [written above line] given by this Book - (and that too within the last Score of years) = That it may cheer and Strengthen is own heart in the future hopes of our beloved Country = and that it may lend to Verify and Strengthen within his own breast the certainty of all God's Promises to the children of Men [underlined] The offer is that as Philosopher [underlined] he may point to it and contrast that day and age with the present = as a testim ony that "The World Moves" [underlined] = And that as a Christian teacher he may refer to it and Say - "Behold what hath God Wrought [underlined]" And more that when he Shall have finished his Course, (and as we trust) received a crown of Life - And that altho -ugh his tongue may be Silent = he may leave this Book that his Children & Grand Children may read and learn. What great changes [caret] has taken place [written above line] both in the political and in the [illegible] world in So Short a time = it being but the first of a faithful adherence to the teaching of God's holy word to the children [illegible words] to Rev. L. Farnsworth

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