Narrative of Riots at Alton: In Connection with the Death of Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy
Alton: George Holton, 1838. First Edition. Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837), abolitionist and printer by trade, had set up a press shop in St. Louis, Missouri, where he published the abolitionist "St. Louis Observer." After angry mobs had destroyed his shop for the third time he moved across the river to..... More