Abolitionism - Sources and Credits
The following sources in the custody of the CWRU Archives were consulted to create the Abolitionism exhibit:
Records and Papers of Administrators, Trustees, and Faculty:
Records of Charles B. Storrs, President, Western Reserve College
- Student petition supporting faculty abolitionist activities, 1832
Papers of Charles B. Storrs
- Journal, 1832-1833, describing College activities, including abolitionism
Papers of Beriah Green
- Sermons on abolitionism, 1832
Papers of Elizur Wright, Jr. and Elizur Wright, Sr.
- Correspondence, 1832-1839, describing family and College activities, including abolitionism
- Letter from Elizur Wright, Jr. to Charles B. Storrs, 8/1833, describing abolitionism events and speeches
Papers of Carroll Cutler
- Correspondence about abolitionism from alumni of the 1830s
Records of Charles F. Thwing, President, Western Reserve University
- Sermon preached by Edward A. Park, pastor of the First Church in Braintree, Massachusetts, at the funeral of Western Reserve College President Charles B. Storrs
Records of Governing Bodies:
Records of Western Reserve College Board of TrusteesRecords of Western Reserve College Faculty
Records of Western Reserve College Prudential Committee
Records of Campus Organizations:
Records of Western Reserve College ChurchWestern Reserve University Yearbooks
Publications:
Baznik, Richard E. Beyond the Fence: A Social History of Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland: Case Western Reserve University, 2014)Cutler, Carroll. A History of Western Reserve College During Its First Half-Century, 1826 - 1876. (Cleveland: Crocker's Publishing House, 1876)
Goodheart, Lawrence B., Abolitionists as Academics: the Controversy at Western Reserve College, 1832-1833, " History of Education, Quarterly, Winter 1982, pp. 421-433
Reilley, Edward C. Ph.D. dissertation, The Early Slavery Controversy in the Western Reserve, 1940
Waite, Frederick Clayton. Western Reserve University - The Hudson Era: A History of Western Reserve College and Academy at Hudson, Ohio, from 1826 to 1882. (Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press, 1943)
Sources outside the Case Western Reserve University Archives:
Observer & Telegraph, newspaper microfilm, Western Reserve Historical SocietyOhio Observer, newspaper microfilm, Western Reserve Historical Society
Credits
This exhibit was prepared and published by the following staff members who are members of the Campus Libraries Diversity Working Group History of Student Activism Subcommittee: Helen Conger, Marel Corredor-Hyland, Naomi Langer, Julia Teran.
