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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [LOVEJOY, ELIJAH]. Alton Trials of Winthrop Gilman, who was indicted . . . for the Crime of Riot . . . while Engaging in Defending a Printing Press. Engraved frontispiece, 158 pages. 12mo, original publisher's patterned cloth; early stains and foxed. New York, 1838
The account of the trial of the rioters that burnt the abolitionist press of Elijah Lovejoy who died in the melee. An important event in the history of freedom of the press in the United States.
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