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ELIJAH LOVEJOY

Elijah P Lovejoy was an American newspaper man and abolitionist. He was born in 1802 and died in 1837. He established the St Louis Observer in 1833, in which he ardently attacked slavery. He was compelled by violent pro-slavery sentiment to remove his paper to Alton, Illinois in 1836, where his establishment was three times sacked by a mob. At a fourth attack one of the mob was killed and Elijah Lovejoy was shot and killed by the remained of the mob.
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