Editing Lane Seminary (section)

====Notable people present====
"The President, and the members of the faculty, with one exception [Biggs, an "implacable foe" of abolitionism<ref name=Abzug/>{{rp|127}}<ref name=Thomas/>{{rp|81}}], were present during parts of the discussion."<ref name="Stanton">{{cite book
|title=Debate at the Lane Seminary
|location=Boston
|publisher=[[William Lloyd Garrison|Garrison]] and [[Isaac Knapp|Knapp]]
|year=1834
|url=https://archive.org/details/debateatlanesem00stangoog/page/n12
|last=Stanton
|first=H. B.
|author-link=Henry Brewster Stanton}}</ref>{{rp|3}}
* [[Gamaliel Bailey]], physician, lecturer on physiology at Lane, who went on to become an abolitionist newspaper editor.
* [[Harriet Beecher Stowe]], at that time simply Harriet Beecher, daughter of Lane's president; 18 years later published ''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''.
* [[Henry Ward Beecher]], [[alumnus]], minister, called, after his father Lyman, "the most noted minister of the nineteenth century".<ref name=Perry>{{cite news
|title=Lift up thy voice: the Grimké family's journey from slaveholders to civil rights leaders
|last=Perry
|first=Mark
|date=2003
|url=https://archive.org/details/liftupthyvoice00mark/page/n17/mode/2up
|isbn=9780142001035
|location=New York
|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]}}</ref>{{rp|18}} Supported sending rifles ("[[Beecher's Bibles]]") to emigrants [[Bleeding Kansas|trying to make Kansas a free state]].
* [[Lyman Beecher]], president of Lane, father of Henry and Harriet.
* [[James G. Birney]], attorney, former [[American Colonization Society]] Agent, author of a lengthy published break with or attack on the Society. "His knowledge and pervasive influence informed the Lane Seminary debate, lifting it to the height of its subject."<ref>{{cite book
|title=James G. Birney and his times; the genesis of the Republican party with some account of abolition movements in the South before 1828
|last=Birney
|first=William
|author-link=William Birney
|date=1890
|location=New York
|publisher=[[D. Appleton and Company]]
|page=[https://archive.org/details/jamesgbirneyhist00birn/page/137 137]
|url=https://archive.org/details/jamesgbirneyhist00birn}}</ref>
* [[James Bradley (former slave)]], the only Black participant.
* [[Samuel Crothers]] (probable but unconfirmed<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|80}})
* [[Amos Dresser]], Lane student; would become famous for being publicly whipped in [[Nashville, Tennessee]], for distributing abolitionist literature.
* [[Huntington Lyman]]<ref>{{cite book
|last=Lyman
|first=H[untington]
|chapter='Lane Seminary Rebels'
|pages=60–69
|chapter-url=http://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/Lyman-Rebels.pdf
|title=The Oberlin Jubilee 1833–1883
|editor-last=Ballantine
|editor-first=W. G.
|location=[[Oberlin, Ohio]]
|publisher=E. J. Goodrich
|access-date=November 11, 2019
|archive-date=January 25, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125034714/https://www2.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/LaneDebates/Lyman-Rebels.pdf
|url-status=live
}}</ref>
* [[Asa Mahan]], minister, and the only Lane trustee who supported the students; resigned with the students and accompanied them to the [[Oberlin Collegiate Institute]], becoming its first president.
* [[John Rankin (abolitionist)]], author of the first American anti-slavery book, and key figure on the [[Underground Railroad]] in Ohio. In 1835 Rankin published a pamphlet defending the students who debated.<ref>{{cite book
|title=A review of the statement of the faculty of Lane seminary : in relation to the recent difficulties in that institution.
|last=Rankin
|first=John
|author-link=John Rankin (abolitionist)
|year=1835
|location=[[Ripley, Ohio]]
|publisher=The author
|url=https://archive.org/details/ASPC0001922700/mode/2up}}</ref>
* [[Henry Brewster Stanton]], future abolitionist speaker and politician, and husband of [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]].
* [[Calvin Ellis Stowe]], Lane professor, future husband of Harriet Beecher.
* [[Theodore Dwight Weld]], former Oneida student, anti-slavery activist.
* [[Hiram Wilson]], former Oneida student; moved to Canada and ran Canadian [[Train station#Terminus|terminus]] for the [[Underground Railroad]].