Documentary Screening, A Higher Law: The Oberlin Wellington Rescue of 1858

Please join us for this special screening of the Emmy award winning documentary, A Higher Law and support producer/videographer Christina Paolucci who is an important part of OFAM’s Herstory team.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Runtime: 1 hour: 26 minutes. The Oberlin–Wellington Rescue of 1858 was a key event in the history of abolitionism leading up to the Civil War in which a group of 37-white and black men in Ohio were charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This is the first time that a ‘higher law’ was used as a defense in a federal court case.

BACKGROUND
2023 – THE FILM PREMIERED 
at the Apollo Theatre in Oberlin to a full house in the spring.  They continued to speak at film screenings throughout the year, two more times in Oberlin, twice in Cincinnati, twice in Lorain County and once in Columbus for a total of seven screening in 2023. 

2024 The film screened in Lorain at the Palace Theatre in June and at the Kelton House Museum and Garden in Columbus in September. Plus, many schools held their own screenings throughout Ohio. Scott and Christina were awarded an Emmy in July in the Historical Documentary category. 

How to Stream the Film 
Here is the link: A Higher Law

SPEARS AND PAOLUCCI FILMS
The Legacy of Easgtate (2012), Historic Woodland Park (2015), Artist and the Anthropologist (2019) and now the Emmy winning film, A Higher Law (2023).  

PLEASE JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 1ST IN COLUMBUS AND SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS PIVOTAL MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 

QUESTIONS?
Reach out to film producer Christina Paolucci about the event.
christinapaolucci@gmail.com 
mobile: 507-202-8269