Abolitionism Website Sourcees and Credits
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