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ERIC Number: EJ519212
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-3711
The American Colleges That Led the Abolition Movement.
Slater, Robert Bruce
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n9 p95-97 Aut 1995
Discusses the history of the American antislavery movement in terms of college professors and students who contributed to the movement and to the Underground Railroad. The paper highlights Oberlin College (Ohio) as the institution with the most profound involvement in the abolition movement. (GR)
Descriptors: Activism, Blacks, Civil Liberties, College Role, Higher Education, Racial Relations, Slavery, United States History
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Abolitionism; American Antislavery Society; Fugitive Slave Act 1850; Oberlin College OH; Underground Railroad