7 Nov 1837 Jahr - Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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(1802-1837)

An American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. He was shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, during their attack on the warehouse of Benjamin Godfrey and W. S. Gillman to destroy Lovejoy's press and abolitionist materials.

According to John Quincy Adams, the murder "[gave] a shock as of an earthquake throughout this country. The Boston Recorder declared that these events called forth from every part of the land 'a burst of indignation which has not had its parallel in this country since the Battle of Lexington.'"