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Look Back: Elijah P. Lovejoy
Date: 11/8/2011
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A drawing of Elijah P. Lovejoy, abolitionist editor in St. Louis who moved to Alton in 1836 after pro-slavery mobs ransacked his newspaper office. He was murdered outside a riverfront warehouse in Alton on Nov. 7, 1837, while trying to defend a fourth press that had been delivered by steamboat earlier in the day. He became a martyr for the nation's small but growing abolitionist cause. (Elijah P. Lovejoy Society)
Caption: A drawing of Elijah P. Lovejoy, abolitionist editor in St. Louis who moved to Alton in 1836 after pro-slavery mobs ransacked his newspaper office. He was murdered outside a riverfront warehouse in Alton on Nov. 7, 1837, while trying to defend a fourth press that had been delivered by steamboat earlier in the day. He became a martyr for the nation's small but growing abolitionist cause. (Elijah P. Lovejoy Society) Album ID: 1354371 Photo ID: 38647106
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