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 c l bre throughout the North.
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