Insurrection: An American Slavery Podcast Alejandra Aguirre

In Episode 1 of Insurrection: An American Slavery Podcast, host Alejandra Aguirre explores how resistance towards the Fugitive Slave Act (1850) hastened the timeline of the Civil War. She'll investigate the political importance of slave resistance and examine how the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue (1858) was, as Steven Lubet puts it, a "small victory for the higher law".

Works Cited

Bouie, Jamelle, and Rebecca Onion. “ Episode 8: Runaway Railroad.” The History of American Slavery, The Slate Group, 22 Sept. 2015, slate.com/podcasts/history-of-american-slavery.

Chamberlain, W.I. “The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue.” The Ohio Farmer, 12 June 1920, pp 18–974-18–974,idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a =d&d=OFR19200612.2.51&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN---------.

Finkelman, Paul. “Slavery, the Constitution, and the Origins of the Civil War.” OAH Magazine of History, vol. 25, no. 2, 2011, pp. 14–18. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23210240. Accessed 21 May 2021.

Lubet, Steven. The Oberlin Fugitive Slave Rescue: A Victory for the Higher Law, Paper 22, 2011, pp. 1–11. Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons, Faculty Working Papers, scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=facultyworkingpapers.

Oakes, James. “The Political Significance of Slave Resistance.” History Workshop, no. 22, 1986,pp. 89–107. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4288720. Accessed 22 May 2021.

Schultz, Liz, et al. “The Oberlin-Wellington Rescue 1858 .”Http://Www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/, Oberlin Heritage Center, 6 Jan. 2009, www.oberlinheritagecenter.org/cms/files/File/OB-Wellington Rescue.pdf.