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Press
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
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Early American studies, 2018-10, Vol.16 (4), p.747
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English
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
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A violent mob marched on a warehouse in Alton, Illinois, where a new printing press for Elijah Lovejoy's newspaper the Alton Observer had been shipped for delivery. They shot and killed the abolitionist editor as he attempted to stop them from seizing and destroying the press. By 1837 Lovejoy had become nationally known for his refusal to be silenc...
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2131204186
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1543-4273
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1559-0895
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