Wood engraving of the November 1837 pro-slavery riot in Alton, Illinois, in which Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist editor, was killed

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Title: Wood engraving of the November 1837 pro-slavery riot in Alton, Illinois, in which Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist editor, was killed
Description: Wood engraving of the November 1837 pro-slavery riot in Alton, Illinois, in which Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist editor, was killed
Bibliographic Citation: By Unknown author - http://www.state.il.us/HPA/lib/Images/LovejoyPaper.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3579768
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Language: English
Rights: Public Domain
Source: By Unknown author - http://www.state.il.us/HPA/lib/Images/LovejoyPaper.JPG, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3579768
Original Item: sjsu-library.github.io
Identifier: unionist--image-0292
IIIF Manifest: https://sjsu-library.github.io/unionist/img/derivatives/iiif/unionist--image-0292/manifest.json
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Related Transcription: unionist--text-0027
Location of Related Text in Issue: 1833-08-08 p02.13
Caption: Attacks on printing offices were serious and not infrequent form of vigilante violence. Much like cyber attacks today, attempts to silence an unpopular perspective by destroying their newspaper's offices and equipment were an ever-present danger. Many of the most famous incidents in American history of such destruction all came with a decade of The Unionist: the attack on William Lloyd Garrison in 1835 (during which Charles Burleigh protected Garrison), the attack against the Abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy in Alton Illinois in 1837, pictured here, in which Lovejoy lost his life, and the attack against the anti-Mormon newspaper, The Nauvoo Expositor that set in motion the eventual martyrdom of that religion's prophet, Joseph Smith, in 1844.