Editing Lane Seminary (section)

{{Short description|Theological college in Ohio, United States}}
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{{Infobox university
 |name              = Lane Seminary
 |other_name        = Lane Theological Seminary
 |native_name       = 
 |image             = LaneSeminary.jpg
 |image_size        = 200px
 |caption           = Campus of Lane Seminary
 |latin_name        = 
 |motto             = 
 |mottoeng          = 
 |established       = 1829
 |closed            = 1932
 |president         = [[Lyman Beecher]] (1832–1852)
 |academic_staff    = [[Calvin Stowe]], [[Baxter Dickinson]]
 |type              = Private seminary
 |affiliation       = Presbyterian
 |other             = 
 |postalcode        = 45206
 |coordinates       = {{coord|39|7|48.62|N|84|29|17.84|W|region:US_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
 |city              = [[Walnut Hills, Cincinnati]]
 |state             = [[Ohio]]
 |province          = 
 |country           = United States
 |footnotes         =
}}

'''Lane Seminary''', sometimes called '''Cincinnati Lane Seminary''',<ref name=Cincinnati/> and later renamed '''Lane Theological Seminary''', was a [[Presbyterian]] [[theological college]] that operated from 1829 to 1932 in [[Walnut Hills, Cincinnati|Walnut Hills, Ohio]], today a neighborhood in [[Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati]]. Its campus was bounded by today's Gilbert, Yale, Park, and Chapel Streets.<ref>{{cite news|title=(Untitled)|author=Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation|url=https://walnuthillsrf.org/throwback-thursday-lane-theological-seminary/|access-date=October 31, 2019|archive-date=October 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191031172645/https://walnuthillsrf.org/throwback-thursday-lane-theological-seminary/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Its board intended it to be "a great ''central theological institution'' at Cincinnati — soon to become the great [[Andover Theological Seminary|Andover]] or [[Princeton]] of the West."<ref>{{cite book
|page=[https://archive.org/details/trialrevlymanbe00stangoog/page/n33 27]
|last=Stansbury
|first=Arthur Joseph
|year=1835
|title=Trial of the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D.D. before the Presbytery of Cincinnati, on the charge of heresy. |location=New-York
|publisher=New York Observer
|url=https://archive.org/details/trialrevlymanbe00stangoog}}</ref> However, the founding and first years of Lane were difficult and contentious, culminating in a mass student exodus over the issue of [[slavery in the United States|slavery]], or more specifically whether students were permitted to discuss the topic publicly, the first major [[academic freedom]] incident in America.<ref>{{cite book
|pages=75–76
|title=A History of Academic Freedom in America
|first=John Karl
|last=Wilson
|publisher=Ph.D. dissertation, Illinois State University
|year=2014
|access-date=November 15, 2019
|url=https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1256&context=etd
|archive-date=April 28, 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428124604/https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1256&context=etd
|url-status=live
}}</ref> There was strong pro-slavery sentiment in Cincinnati, and the trustees immediately prohibited further discussion of the topic, to avoid repercussions. With the city being on the border of the South, a lot of [[fugitive slaves]] and [[freedmen]] went through Cincinnati, including [[James Bradley (former slave)|James Bradley]], who would participate in the pivotal Lane slavery debates in the 1830s. Their competition for jobs had led to the anti-abolitionist [[Cincinnati riots of 1829]] and would soon produce the [[Cincinnati riots of 1836]].