' I Plant Myself...Down on My Unquestionable Rights': Elijah Lovejoy's Fatal Stand for Freedom

Article tells the story of Elijah Lovejoy, St. Louis abolitionist. His impassioned denunciations of slavery in his newspaper, The Observer, incurred the wrath of pro-slavery elements. Lovejoy moved his presses across the river to Alton, Illinois but an angry mob attacked him there, killing Lovejoy and destroying his presses. His death served to mobilize abolitionists to take action and added to the growing strife that would cause the Civil War.