A history of Oberlin : or New lights of the West. Embracing the conduct and character of the officers and students of the institution, together with the colonists, from the founding of the institution

Smith traces the history of Oberlin, Ohio, and its college and seminary, from which he was expelled and of which he is quite contemptible. He also gives an account of abolitionism at Oberlin, including the role of the community as a way-station on the "underground railroad" for escaped slaves.
"For sale at the Office of the Cleveland liberalist." -- Cover.
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LC copy has inscriptions in ink on cover: Deposit Oct. 25th, 1837 ... Label fixed to cover: No. 40, 1837. Other inscriptions in ink on cover, verso of cover and verso of t.p.