Look up the , an event that gave Oberlin nationwide attention when 21 black and white OberliniansWellington-Oberlin Rescue were jailed for taking John Price away from a US Marshall and slave catchers. The group took him back to Oberlin hid him and in the Oberlin College president’s home and later sent him on to freedom in Canada.

What a sight that must have been, practically the whole town was involved. The men were jailed in Cleveland for 84 days and friends visited every day. 400 children came from First Church Sunday school to see their superintendent. The ‘prisoners’ even published a paper called “The Rescuer” while they were in jail.