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No community better reflected the growing passion against slavery than Oberlin College. In September 1858 the sudden kidnapping of a runaway slave who was living in Oberlin caused the entire community and its college students to rush to his rescue. The slave was rescued, but 37 of his rescuers were identified and put on trial for violating federal law, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The case became a cause célèbre throughout the North.
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Nat Brandt - Editor, The New York Times; managing editor, American Heritage magazine; Editor-in-Chief, Publishers Weekly; author of ten books dealing with American history.
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The place was Oberlin, an Ohio college town and Underground Railroad station. The year was 1858. Claiming a law higher than the federal Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, scores of blacks and whites foiled the return of escaped Kentucky slave John Price. Focusing on the prosecution of 36 rescuers who paid the price of fines and prison, Brandt re-creates the scene and the action. With a journalist's feel for detail and compelling human interest, he builds on Jacob Shipherd's original History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue (1859) and William Cochran's Western Reserve and the Fugitive Slave Law: A Prelude to the Civil War (1920; Da Capo, 1972. reprint). Brandt brings to life moral conflict, politics, personalities, stategies, and theology that divided the Union and induced the nation's bloodiest war. Recommended for antebellum, Civil War, and general American history collections. Brandt is the author of the well-received history The Man Who Tried To Burn New York (LJ 8/86). History Book Club and BOMC selections.
- Thomas J. Davis, Univ. at Buffalo, N.Y.
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- Publication date2012
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