Photograph #1


Photo and caption from The Ohio Historical Society, "The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920" http://dbs.ohiohistory.org/africanam/page1.cfm?ItemID=5596 April 9, 2000.
"Description: Photograph of the Oberlin Rescuers at the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Jail in April 1859. Photograph shows the twenty Oberlin people arrested and put on trial for their roles in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Case, which involved assisting a fugitive slave to escape to Canada."