Editing Lane Seminary (section)

===The conditions of the Lane Rebels' enrollment at Oberlin===
The students negotiated with Shipherd the installation of Asa Mahan, the Lane trustee who resigned, as Oberlin's president. Oberlin also agreed to hire Morgan, the discharged professor. The trustees would not have the power, as they did at Lane, to meddle in the affairs of professors and students. The most controversial condition insisted on by the Rebels was that Oberlin commit itself to accepting African-American students in general, and the very popular [[James Bradley (former slave)|James Bradley]] in particular, equally. This was agreed to reluctantly, after a "dramatic" vote (4–4, tie broken by chair).<ref name=Lesick/>{{rp|170}}

The Lane Rebels, with Weld at their head, could insist on these conditions because funding from the Tappans came with them. If the trustees did not agree they would lose this crucial funding, as well as Mahan, Finney, and Shipherd, who threatened to quit.

The conditions of the Rebels set limits, for the first time, on an American college's authority over students and faculty. They also were part of the shift in American antislavery efforts from colonization to abolition; many of the Rebels would become part of Oberlin's cadre of minister–abolitionists.<ref name=Fletcher/>{{rp|164–166}}
[[File:Lane Seminary, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati.jpg|thumb|Postcard of Lane Seminary, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. Late 19th century?]]