Nat Brandt recounts two examples of anti-slavery rescue actions by abolitionists that also contributed to the sectional split that would lead to war. Close by was the 1858 Oberlin-Wellington rescue of escaped slave John Price from Kentucky slave catchers by Oberlin area citizens. Oberlin was an Ohio center of abolitionist sentiments and a stop on the Underground Railroad. This led to a famous trial in Cleveland of Oberlin rescuers.