About this episode

The episode recounts the story of John Price's escape from slavery and the community's response to a bounty hunter in Oberlin, Ohio.

In 1858, when a bounty hunter came to Oberlin, Ohio, to capture an enslaved man who had fled from Kentucky via the Underground Railroad, the staunchly abolitionist townspeople of Oberlin had something to say about it. Join John Bradshaw on location in Ohio for the story of John Price’s bid for freedom and the people who stood up to injustice on his behalf.

People in this episode

Host: John Bradshaw

Topics covered

• abolitionism
• freedom
• Underground Railroad
• injustice
• historical events

Keywords

• Oberlin
• John Price
• bounty hunter
• abolitionist
• freedom
• slavery
• Underground Railroad

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: abolitionist

Places: Oberlin, Ohio, Kentucky

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