The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837: was played up by temperance pamphleteers to show the hazards of alcoholism. led Congress to adopt the gag rule to prevent the sort of heated arguments that caused his death. resulted from his leading an anti-abolitionist mob that attacked William Lloyd Garrison. demonstrated that fugitive slaves like Lovejoy faced great dangers while escaping from "slave catchers." convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.

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Adyson Noble

15 March, 00:38

The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837: was played up by temperance pamphleteers to show the hazards of alcoholism. led Congress to adopt the gag rule to prevent the sort of heated arguments that caused his death. resulted from his leading an anti-abolitionist mob that attacked William Lloyd Garrison. demonstrated that fugitive slaves like Lovejoy faced great dangers while escaping from "slave catchers." convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.

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The death of Elijah Lovejoy in 1837 convinced many northerners that slavery was incompatible with white Americans' liberties.

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Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American journalist and abolitionist who was killed in Alton, Illinois, for attempting to defend his press against rioters in favor of slavery.

On three occasions, the presses used by Lovejoy had been destroyed by rioters. Refugee in his printing press, he tried this time to resist, weapon in hand. The rioters managed to fire the building, however, before shooting at Lovejoy as it fled the burning building. His death sparked a national controversy between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists. Attorney Wendell Phillips defended the printer in a speech delivered at Faneuil Hall in Boston on December 8, 1837, elevating him to the rank of champion of the freedom of press.