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The Anti-Slavery Crusade

CHAPTER III
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This is an early suggestion that equal suffrage would become the ultimate goal of the efforts for righting women's wrongs.
At the same time there were accessions to the cause from a different source.

In 1833 Oberlin College was founded in northern Ohio.

Into some of the first classes there women were admitted on equal terms with men.
In 1835 the trustees offered the presidency to Professor Asa Mahan, of Lane Seminary.

He was himself an abolitionist from a slave State, and he refused to be President of Oberlin College unless negroes were admitted on equal terms with other students.

Oberlin thus became the first institution in the country which extended the privileges of the higher education to both sexes of all races.


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