History of the United States I / Unit 13 USH1 1841 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Mobs
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The idea
Most northerners rejected abolition entirely, and anti-abolitionists saw Garrison and his allies as a direct threat to decency and public order.
In practice
A Boston mob dragging Garrison through the streets in eighteen thirty-five.
Where people slip
An Illinois mob killed the editor Elijah Lovejoy in eighteen thirty-seven, and ten thousand protesters burned Pennsylvania Hall in eighteen thirty-eight.
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