| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Lovejoy, Elijah Parish |
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| 1802–37, American abolitionist, b. Albion, Maine, grad. Waterville (now Colby) College, 1826, and later studied theology at Princeton. In 1833 he became editor of the Observer, a Presbyterian weekly in St. Louis. His antislavery views (he advocated gradual emancipation) became extremely unpopular, and in 1836 he moved to Alton, Ill. There he advocated immediate abolition in his Alton Observer. Mobs destroyed three of his presses, and on Nov. 7, 1837, while guarding another new press, he was killed. Lovejoy’s martyrdom helped advance the cause of the abolitionists. | 1 | | See biography by P. Simon (1964). | 2 |
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