"Because it embraced radical racial egalitarianism in 1835, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the quest for abolition and black freedom in the antebellum period. Today, residents, visitors, and scholars still celebrate its historic role in abolition, integration, and the quest for equality."--Provided by publisher.

Gary J. Kornblith, emeritus professor of history at Oberlin College, has published Slavery and Sectional Strife in the Early American Republic, 1776-1821 and Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America.

Carol Lasser, emeritus professor of history at Oberlin College, has published Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World and Antebellum American Women: Private, Public, Partisan.