"Gentlemen of Property and Standing": Anti-Abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America
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This book identifies the anti-abolitionists in the northern states and examines what motivated them. In the 1830's riots flared up in many northern...
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This book identifies the anti-abolitionists in the northern states and examines what motivated them. In the 1830's riots flared up in many northern cities. In Utica, NY; New York City, Boston, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, tormented free blacks, and razed the Negro quarters. In Illinois, Presbyterian minister and editor of the Alton Observer, Elijah Lovejoy, was killed.
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- ISBN10:0195013514
- ISBN13:9780195013511
- kindle Asin:0195013514
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