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How Did Oberlin Women Students Draw on Their College Experience to
Participate in Antebellum Social Movements, 1831-1861?

 

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Electronic Oberlin Group

This website provides a wide variety of resources on Oberlin history, including biographies of Sarah Margru Kinson, the Amistad captive who subsequently attended the preparatory department at the Oberlin Collegiate Institute; abolitionist and feminist Lucy Stone, Oberlin Class of 1847; and Oberlin President Charles Grandison Finney.

Oberlin College Archives

Loaded on the homepage are nearly three-hundred finding guides (and several subject guides) to institutional records and manuscript collections. By using key names and subjects researchers can locate sources to support particular research topics. Links to outside archival/manuscript sources can also be found on this site.

Library of Congress

Through this Library of Congress gateway, many primary sources on antebellum Oberlin can be accessed, including: History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue compiled by Jacob R. Shipherd, about the famous 1858 resistance of Oberlinians to the Fugitive Slave Law; the controversial A History of Oberlin, or New Lights of the West: Embracing the Conduct and Character of the Officers and Students of the Institution, written in 1837 by expelled student Delazon Smith; photographs of antebellum men and women of Oberlin, and Congressional records of Oberlin petitions by men and women on issues related to slavery and temperance.

American Women's History: A Research Guide

Browse this site for more information about the early history of women and public speaking.

Lucretia Mott to Elizabeth Pease, 18 February 1841

This document reveals the tensions between Oberlin abolitionists and other mainstream activists. In the letter Lucretia Mott objects to the tactics used by Oberlinians in England, pointing out to an English ally that Oberlin represented only one form of antislavery activism.

Making of America

From this site, you can access writing by and about Oberlin College and its early commitment to coeducation, including: James Harris Fairchild's, Oberlin: Its Origin, Progress and Results (1860); and Andrew Dickson White's, Report Submitted to the Trustees of Cornell University, on Mr. Sage's Proposal to Endow a College for Women (1872), which drew heavily on Oberlin's experience.