Henry Peck, the nephew of Almira Porter Barnes,<\/a>[1]born on July 20, 1821, was a professor of sacred rhetoric and moral and mental philosophy at Oberlin College<\/a>[2]from 1852-1865.<\/a>[3]Henry Peck was born to Everard Peck, a publisher in Rochester New York.<\/a>[4]He studied at Oneida Institute and graduated Bowdoin. He was a student of Theology at Oberlin College, after which, he joined the faculty there in 1844<\/a>[5]. At this time, he is commonly referred to as being an eccentric, a liberal, and a staunch abolitionist.<\/a>[6]During his time at Oberlin, he was offered a position on the general assembly on the Republican party but declined because he lacked the support of his faculty members.<\/a>[7]On top of being quite vocal about his abolitionist views Henry Peck also is noted for having been involved in the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. During his work as a professor, Peck became co-editor of the\u00a0Lorrain County News<\/em>a newspaper in Ohio.<\/a>[8]After the passing of the fugitive slave act in 1850 a man of color named John Price was kidnapped from Oberlin in attempts to sell him into slavery.<\/a>[9]To this there was a massive response from residents. Many people flocked to the hotel where he was being held in Wellington in order to free him. During the Oberlin-Wellington affair, Henry Peck was arrested having aided the rescue. He was the most prominent member of the defense and was considered by the prosecution to be the ringleader of the \u201cSaints of Oberlin.\u201d<\/a>[10]In 1865 Henry Peck was appointed as the minister in Haiti following the large migration of black people to the island.<\/a>[11]It was there that he died of yellow fever soon after in 1867.<\/a>[12]<\/p>\n …<\/span><\/p>\n …<\/span><\/p>\n [1]Gorman, Ron. Oberlin Heritage Center Blog. March 22, 2016. Accessed November 28, 2018. https:\/\/www.oberlinheritagecenter.org\/blog\/tag\/henry-peck\/.<\/p>\n <\/a>[2]Blodgett, Geoffrey. \u201cJohn Mercer Langston and the Case of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862.\u201d\u00a0The Journal of Negro History<\/em>\u00a053, no. 3 (1968): 201-18.\u00a0doi:10.2307\/2716216.<\/p>\n <\/a>[3]A History of Oberlin College from Its Foundation Through the Civil War. By Robert Samuel Fletcher. Volumes I and II. (Oberlin: Oberlin College. 1943. Pp. Xvii, 502; Xi, 507\u20131004.).\u201d\u00a0The American Historical Review, 1944.\u00a0doi:10.1086\/ahr\/49.3.501.<\/p>\n <\/a>[4]Ibid.<\/p>\n <\/a>[5]Blodgett, Geoffrey. \u201cJohn Mercer Langston and the Case of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862.\u201d\u00a0The Journal of Negro History<\/em>\u00a053, no. 3 (1968): 201-18.\u00a0doi:10.2307\/2716216.<\/p>\n <\/a>[6]\u201cA History of Oberlin College from Its Foundation Through the Civil War. By Robert Samuel Fletcher. Volumes I and II. (Oberlin: Oberlin College. 1943. Pp. Xvii, 502; Xi, 507\u20131004.).\u201d\u00a0The American Historical Review<\/em>, 1944.\u00a0doi:10.1086\/ahr\/49.3.501.<\/p>\n <\/a>[7]Rokicky, Catherine M.\u00a0James Monroe: Oberlin\u2019s Christian Statesman and Reformer, 1821-1898. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2002.<\/p>\n <\/a>[8]Blodgett, Geoffrey. \u201cJohn Mercer Langston and the Case of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862.\u201d\u00a0The Journal of Negro History<\/em>\u00a053, no. 3 (1968): 201-18.\u00a0doi:10.2307\/2716216.<\/p>\n <\/a>[9]Shipherd, Jacob R., Ralph Plumb, and Henry E. Peck.\u00a0History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. Boston: J.P. Jewett and, 1859.<\/p>\n <\/a>[10]Blodgett, Geoffrey. \u201cJohn Mercer Langston and the Case of Edmonia Lewis: Oberlin, 1862.\u201d\u00a0The Journal of Negro History<\/em>\u00a053, no. 3 (1968): 201-18.\u00a0doi:10.2307\/2716216.<\/p>\n