The Boston Mob Of Gentlemen Of Property And Standing

Download or read book Gentlemen of Property and Standing written by Leonard L. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generation before the Civil War, riots flared up in many northern cities. In New York, Boston, Utica, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, tormented free blacks, and razed the Negro quarters; and in Illinois, the newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy was slain. This book examines what motivated these zealous northern anti-abolitionists.