John Price escaped from slavery on a wintry night in January 1856, willing to risk everything for a chance at freedom. He was lucky enough to find a new life in the open-minded town of Oberlin, Ohio, then home to many abolitionists and former slaves. But when slave hunters snatched him right off the road two years later, it seemed like that new life was over. Still, John risked everything one more time, yelling for help as a student from the local college passed the wagon.

John thought his plea went unheard, but the college student sounded the alarm. The people of Oberlin—men and women, black and white—found the slave hunters in Wellington, Ohio, and demanded that Price be set free. When those demands were ignored, they—along with some Wellington residents—took matters into their own hands, risking their lives and freedom in one of the most dramatic slave rescues in American history.

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