Y/M/D | Description | Place |
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1837/11/00 | Elijah Parish Lovejoy is murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on Godfrey and Gillman's warehouse to destroy his press and abolitionist materials. | Alton, Illinois |
1837/12/07 | As Bostonians gathered at Faneuil Hall to discuss Elijah P Lovejoy's murder in Alton, Attorney general James T Austin compares the killers to 1776 patriots who fought against the British. Phillips praises Lovejoy as a defender of liberty. | Faneuil Hall, Boston |
1837/12/07 | William Ellery Channing sponsores an antislavery meeting at Faneuil Hall, Boston. | Faneuil Hall, Boston |
1837/12/18 | Samuel May writes to William Garrison asking to publish a letter in the Liberator he wrote to Beriah Green so that the public will be aware "that some of us do heartily disapprove the course of Lovejoy and his associates." | |
1837/12/18 | In a letter to William Garrison, Samuel May is critical of the Boston city government for objecting to using Faneuil Hall as an antislavery meeting sponsored by William Ellery Channing. | Faneuil Hall, Boston |
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