Sources Used
Sources in the University Archives which document abolitionism include:
Records and Papers of Administrators, Trustees, and Faculty:
Records of Charles B. Storrs, President, Western Reserve College- Student petition supporting faculty abolitionist activities, 1832
- Journal, 1832-1833, describing College activities, including abolitionism
- Sermons on abolitionism, 1832
- 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
- Correspondence about abolitionism
- 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 University Archives
Observer & Telegraph, newspaper microfilm, Western Reserve Historical SocietyOhio Observer, newspaper microfilm, Western Reserve Historical Society
