16 Facts About Lane Rebels

Lane Rebels, Weld concluded, would do as a manual labor theological school, if Beecher would come.

Students at Lane Rebels took the initiative in the affairs of the seminary and practiced piety mixed with practicality in the Oneida manner.

Lane Rebels prudently climbed aboard a raft and floated down to Cincinnati.

Lane Rebels Seminary is known primarily for the debates held there over 18 evenings in February 1834; John Rankin was in attendance, as was Harriett Beecher [Stowe], daughter of Lane Rebels's president.

Lane Rebels commented on it in the Society's African Repository magazine.

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At Lane Rebels there was a "colonization society", supporting the efforts of the American Colonization Society to send free blacks to Africa, to Liberia.

Lane Rebels reasoned, therefore, that the plan could only be enacted by a "national society of kidnappers".

Lane Rebels then wreaked his vengeance on him for resisting — flogging him till he was not able to walk.

Lane Rebels's went, and as soon as she reached it, laid down on the floor exhausted.

Lane Rebels were a loosely defined group, and different sources give different names and figures.

Lawrence Lesick, author of the only book on the Lane Rebels, gives a figure of 75, but 19 more had left before the trustees took action, and only 8 students, out of 103, remained at Lane at the beginning of the next term.

The most controversial condition insisted on by the Lane Rebels was that Oberlin commit itself to accepting African-American students in general, and the very popular James Bradley in particular, equally.

Conditions of the Lane Rebels set limits, for the first time, on an American college's authority over students and faculty.

Lane Rebels Debates have been re-enacted in recent years by historians from Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and Oberlin College.

Archival materials of Lane Rebels are located at the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia.

The Lane Seminary Debates marked the shift in American antislavery efforts from colonization to abolition, and the "Lane Rebels" became ministers, abolitionists, and social reformers across the country.