The Rescue of John PRice

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1858. At the height of the frenzy over the Fugitive Slave Act, 16-year-old John Price makes his way from the depths of Kentucky slavery over the frozen Ohio River to the abolitionist sanctuary and utopian college town of Oberlin.  When slave catchers threaten to kidnap John back into slavery, a crowd of hundreds of Oberlin and Wellington citizens led by a revolutionary group of Rescuers prevent his capture and speed him on to his quest for true freedom. Based on actual historical events, the inside story of “the little town that started the Civil War.”