Saturday, February 12, 2022

Anti-slavery collection at Oberlin

"It is proposed to make in the college library an anti-slavery collection, complete as possible, for the future historian, in which shall be gathered every book, every pamphlet, every report, every tract, every newspaper, and every private letter on the subject. For such a collection nothing is unimportant. Scattered here and there these documents are all but worthless, but gathered in one collection they would be priceless." Rev. Henry Matson, librarian at Oberlin College, quoted in the Oberlin Weekly News, February 29, 1884.

Internet Archive (American Libraries collection) Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

https://archive.org/details/antislavery

This would be a good source for Black History Month particularly the autobiographies.



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