{"id":2864,"date":"2022-11-12T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2022-12-03T13:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T17:44:04","slug":"1858-oberlin-wellington-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1858-oberlin-wellington-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"(1858) Oberlin-Wellington Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The rescue of freedom seeker John Price from federal custody signals Northerners&#8217; increasingly open defiance of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Date(s): escaped 1856; recaptured and rescued September 13, 1858<\/p>\n<p>Location(s): Kentucky; Oberlin, Ohio; Wellington, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>Outcome: Freedom<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2151\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2679\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2679\" class=\"wp-image-2679 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers-1024x665.png 1024w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers-768x499.png 768w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers-900x584.png 900w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers-1280x831.png 1280w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/files\/2022\/11\/Oberlin-Wellington-Rescuers.png 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oberlin-Wellington Rescuers (<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiohistorycentral.org\/w\/Oberlin-Wellington_Rescue_Case\">Ohio History Connection<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">John Price escaped from slavery in Kentucky in 1856 and settled in Oberlin, Ohio, a staunchly antislavery town in central Ohio. Federal officers and Kentucky slave catchers caught up with Price on September 13, 1858 and spirited Price away to nearby Wellington. Outraged Oberlin residents quickly mobilized to rescue Price. Within a few hours, a large crowd of Black and white Oberlin residents had surrounded the slave catchers, who were holed up inside a Wellington hotel, ultimately overpowering the Kentuckians and freeing Price. Federal authorities charged 37 Ohio residents for their roles in Price\u2019s rescue, but only managed to convict two abolitionists to relatively light sentences.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Related Sources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-Im7K3ZuR1cC\">Jacob R. Shipherd, Ralph Plumb, and Henry Everard Peck. <em>History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue<\/em> (Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1859)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24935\">Cleveland (OH) Herald, \u201cReflex of Opinion,\u201d April 22, 1859<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24495\">Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, \u201cThe Oberlin Women,\u201d April 28, 1859<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/24434\">Fayetteville (NC) Observer, \u201cRespect for Law,\u201d May 30, 1859<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/27328\">Cleveland (OH) Herald, \u201cAnother Jubilee [Jubilee] at Oberlin,\u201d July 9, 1859<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Related Essays<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/overview-essays\/epilogue-blackett\/\">RJM Blackett, Epilogue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/us-constitution-and-fugitive-slave-laws-finkelman\/\">Paul Finkelman, US Constitution and Fugitive Slave Laws<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/violence-and-black-resistance-jackson\/\">Kellie Carter Jackson, Violence and Black Resistance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/the-abolitionist-underground-sinha\/\">Manisha Sinha, The Abolitionist Underground<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rescue of freedom seeker John Price from federal custody signals Northerners&#8217; increasingly open defiance of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act Date(s): escaped 1856; recaptured and rescued September 13, 1858 Location(s): Kentucky; Oberlin, Ohio; Wellington, Ohio Outcome: Freedom Summary: John Price escaped from slavery in Kentucky in 1856 and settled in Oberlin, Ohio, a staunchly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23500,23484,23488,23481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackett","category-finkelman","category-jackson","category-sinha"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}