Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was Murdered in Defence of the Liberty of the Press, at Alton, Illinois, Nov. 7, 1837

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J.S. Taylor, 1838 - 382 halaman
"Elijah P. Lovejoy was a Princeton Seminary-trained Presbyterian minister, native of Maine, abolitionist, newspaper editor, and religious critic. After leaving Princeton in 1833 he established himself in St. Louis, a city in which he had lived briefly before taking his divinity degree. On there separate occasions pro-slavery mobs destroyed his pro-abolitionist press on 7 November 1837, burned the building, and killed the man himself. This Memoir, written by his brothers Joseph and Owen and with an introduction by John Quincy Adams, helped establish Elijah Lovejoy as a martyr in the causes of freedom of the press and the anti-slavery movement." (background from Philadelphia Rare Book & Manuscript).
 

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