Oberlin, hotbed of abolitionism: college, community, and the fight for freedom and equality in antebellum America

Introduction: facts are sometimes stranger than fiction

To save the godless west: revivalism, abolition, and the founding of Oberlin

The worthies of Oberlin: antislavery expansion in the late 1830s

A city upon a hill: utopian Oberlin

A hotbed of abolitionism

All the truly wise or truly pious have the same end in view: Oberlin and abolitionist schism

The tyrant's grapple by our vote, we'll loosen from our brother's throat: Oberlin, free soil, and the fight for equal rights

We must watch and improve this tide: Oberlin confronts the slave power, 1850-1858

That railroad center at which all branches converged: Oberlin and the underground railroad

This drama of genuine manhood and courage: Oberlin and the fight for freedom

Epilogue: be not conformed to this world.