The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society is sponsoring a community showing of the film "Awakening to Justice" with conversation to follow at 2 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Oberlin Public Library, 65 S.
director of the Oberlin Underground Railroad Society/Phillis Wheatley Center; Eboni Johnson, president of Oberlin City Council; and Brittany Lovett, chair of the Ruby N. Jones Community ...
The Fugitive Slave Act, which passed Sept. 18, 1850, and was part of the Compromise of 1850, required that slaves be returned to their owners — even if they were in Ohio or any other free state.