Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom of the press.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Reverend David Nelson influenced Lovejoy's antislavery views
Wood engraving of the pro-slavery mob setting fire to Gilman & Godfrey's warehouse.
Mid-19th century memorial card with Lovejoy's silhouette
Abolitionism in the United States
In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Collection box for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, c. 1850
Thones Kunders's house at 5109 Germantown Avenue, where the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was written
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), judge who wrote The Selling of Joseph (1700) which denounced the spread of slavery in the American colonies
Grave of Benjamin Kent, lawyer who freed a slave in America (1766)