Editing Oberlin College (section)

===Predecessor: The Oneida Institute===
{{Further|Oneida Institute}}
{{blockquote|With the noble exception of the Oneida Institute in the state of New York, which, in the midst of persecution, has stood erect and preeminently true to the slave, mighty in its free testimony, and terrible to the oppressor, the Institution of Oberlin is the only one in the United States in which the black and colored student finds a home, where he is fully and joyously regarded as a man and a brother.<ref name=Oneida>{{cite book |title=The martyr age of the United States of America, with an appeal on behalf of the Oberlin Institute in aid of the abolition of slavery |year=1840 |location=[[Newcastle upon Tyne]] |publisher=Newcastle Upon Tyne Emancipation and Aborigines Protection Society |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/60238308 |jstor=60238308 |access-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913231139/https://www.jstor.org/stable/60238308 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
The [[Lane Rebels]] are commonly mentioned in the early history of Oberlin.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Lane Rebels at Oberlin |author=Oberlin Sanctuary Project |year=2017 |access-date=October 2, 2019 |url=https://sanctuary.oberlincollegelibrary.org/exhibits/show/the-lane-rebels/the-lane-rebels--abolitionists |publisher=Oberlin College Library |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729112255/https://sanctuary.oberlincollegelibrary.org/exhibits/show/the-lane-rebels/the-lane-rebels--abolitionists |archive-date=July 29, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> These original Oberlin students, who had little to do with [[Lane Theological Seminary|Lane]] other than walking out on it, were carrying on a tradition that began at the [[Oneida Institute of Science and Industry]], in [[Oneida County, New York]], near [[Utica, New York|Utica]]. Oneida was "a hotbed of anti-slavery activity",<ref name=Axe>{{cite book |title=Abolition's axe : Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black freedom struggle |last=Sernett |first=Milton C. |publisher=[[Syracuse University Press]] |year=1986 |isbn=9780815623700 |url=https://archive.org/details/abolitionsaxeber00sern/}}</ref>{{rp|44}} "abolitionist to the core, more so than any other American college."<ref name=Axe/>{{rp|46}} A fundraising trip to England sought funds for both colleges.<ref name=Both>{{cite book |title=Oneida and Oberlin, or A Call, addressed to British Christians and philanthropists, affectionately inviting their sympathies, their prayers, and their assistance, in favour of the Christians and philanthropists of the United States of North America, for the extirpation, by our aid, of that slavery which we introduced into those states, while they were under our power |location=[[Bristol, England]] |publisher=Wright and Albright |first=Charles |last=Stuart |authorlink=Charles Stuart (abolitionist) |year=1841 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/60239226 |jstor=60239226 |access-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-date=September 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913152658/https://www.jstor.org/stable/60239226 |url-status=live }}</ref> Oberlin's anti-slavery activities supplanted those of Oneida, which fell on hard times and closed in 1843. Funding previously provided by the philanthropist brothers [[Lewis Tappan|Lewis and Arthur Tappan]] was transferred to Oberlin. Oberlin became the new "academic powder keg for abolitionism."<ref>{{cite book
|page=102
|title ='Fire from the Midst of You' [:] A Religious Life of John Brown
|first=Louis A.
|last=DeCaro Jr.
|location=New York
|year=2002
|publisher=[[New York University Press]]
|isbn=081471921X}}</ref>

Oneida was founded by [[George Washington Gale]], of whom Oberlin President [[Charles Grandison Finney]] was a disciple. The institute's second and final President, [[Beriah Green]], moved to Oneida after he proved too abolitionist for [[Case Western Reserve University#Western Reserve College (1826–1882) and University (1882–1967)|Western Reserve College]], Oberlin's early competitor in the [[Ohio Western Reserve]].