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Description
Title
Oberlin-Wellington
Rescuers
Photograph
Subject
African American Ohioans
Civil Liberties
Slavery
Abolitionists
Oberlin-Wellington Rescue, 1858
Place
Oberlin (Ohio)
Wellington (Ohio)
Lorain County (Ohio)
Cleveland (Ohio)
Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Description
This
8
"
x
10
"
(20.32
x
25.4
cm)
photograph
shows
participants
in the
rescue
of
John
Price
, a
17-year
old
fugitive
slave
from
Kentucky
was
living
in
Oberlin
at the
time
of his
arrest
by
two
slave
catchers
and
two
federal
marshals
on
September
13
,
1858
. This
photograph
shows
the
men
outside
the
Cuyahoga
County
Jail
after
their
release
.
Upon
his
arrest
,
Price
was
quickly
taken
to
Wellington
,
where
the
slave
catchers
and
marshals
planned
to
board
a
train
heading
south
.
Realizing
what had
happened
,
anti-slavery
supporters
in
Oberlin
were
outraged
and
quickly
gathered
together
to
rescue
Price
. By
afternoon
,
200
people
from
Oberlin
and
Wellington
had
surrounded
the
Wadsworth
Hotel
where
Price
was
being
held
.
After
a
standoff
of
several
hours
,
Price
was
rescued
from his
captors
and
taken
back
to the
Oberlin
home
of
Professor
James
Fairchild
.
Several
days
later
Price
continued
on the
Underground
Railroad
to
Canada
.
Thirty-seven
members
of the
crowd
who
rescued
Price
were
indicted
in
federal
court
for their
part
in the
event
.
Twenty-one
of them were
arrested
and
sent
to the
Cuyahoga
County
Jail
for
about
a
month
.
When
the
slave
catchers
and
marshals
were
charged
with
kidnapping
,
both
sides
agreed
to
drop
the
charges
. 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
.
Shown
in the
photograph
are:
(standing
from
left
to
right)
Sheriff
David
Wightman
,
jailer
John
B
.
Smith
,
Richard
Winsor
,
Simeon
Bushnell
,
David
Watson
,
William
E
.
Lincoln
,
Charles
Langston
,
Wilson
Bruce
Evans
,
John
H
.
Scott
,
Ansel
W
.
Lyman
,
Henry
E
.
Peck
, and
James
M
.
Fitch
.
Seated
are
Ralph
Plumb
,
James
Bartlett
,
John
Watson
, and
Henry
Evans
.
Two
of the
men
,
Jacob
B
.
Shipherd
and
Orindatus
S.B
.
Wall
, were
released
earlier
due
to a
technicality
with their
indictments
and are not
pictured
.
Date of Original
May
13
,
1858
Collection
Underground
Railroad
in
Lorain
County
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Oberlin College Archives
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om215_624689_301.tif
Image Height
359
Image Width
540
File Size
59.531 KB
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