Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was murdered in Defense of the liberty of the press at Alton, Illinois, November 7, 1837

by Joseph Cammet Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy

Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy was a well-know, and well-respected Presbyterian minister, as well as a journalist and outspoken abolitionist. He was responsible for the publication of numerous pro-abolition articles, letters, news, and other printed materials.

Lovejoy was so passionate and committed to championing the freedom of his fellow man that he made the ultimate sacrifice for his beliefs, when a pro-slavery mob murdered him during an attack on his warehouse in 1837. He was immediately considered a martyr of the Abolitionist movement - and rightly so - and is still remembered as a brilliant man who understood that the abhorrent practice of slavery was fundamentally wrong.

258 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1938

About the author

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Cammet Lovejoy (1805–1871) was a clergyman, activist, and author.[1] He was an abolitionist, and was also involved in the debate over liquor laws.[2] His siblings included Elijah Parish Lovejoy and Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... .[3][4] He wrote Memoir of Charles T. Torrey about Charles T. Torrey.[5] who died in a Maryland penitentiary after being sentenced for aiding African Americans trying to escape slavery on the Underground Railroad and co-wrote with his brother Owen the memoir of their murdered brother Elijah.

He wrote for The Emancipator. He and his brother Owen wrote a memoir of Elijah Lovejoy after his murder by a white mob for publishing am anti-slavery newspaper. In March, 1853 he gave a speech before the Legislative Temperance Committee.[6] He also spoke about liquor legislation before the Massachusetts Legislature.[7]

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The story of the death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy in Alton Missouri assembled by his family and written in the newspaper articles, letters and testimony of the events leading up to his death.