Sunday, February 14, 1999
Beecher's students debated slavery
Lane Theological Seminary, the Presbyterian college that hired Lyman Beecher as its president in 1932, occupied a dozen buildings on 10 acres facing Gilbert Avenue, between Yale and Chapel streets.
In 1834, seminary students held a lyceum for discussing public issues. Their nine-day debate arguing the merits of African colonization for freed slaves ended with students rejecting colonization, forming an abolitionist society and demanding emancipation of slaves.
Lane's directors responded by abolishing the students' Anti-Slavery Society and prohibiting public discussion of slavery on the campus. Professor Theodore Weld bolted with 95 students to Oberlin College in northern Ohio, which became an abolitionist center.
The story of the Lane Debates was covered by newspapers nationwide and became an important anti-slavery event. Lane never recovered completely, but survived until 1932, when it merged with the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago. Its buildings were converted into apartments, the last of which was torn down in 1953 to make way for a Cadillac dealership.
— Owen Findsen
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