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Ken Ellingwood

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  • Front page of the New York Daily Times.

    How US Newspapers Became Utterly Ubiquitous in the 1830s

    On the social and political function of political media.
    by Ken Ellingwood via Literary Hub on May 6, 2021
  • Wood engraving of November 7, 1837 mob attack in Alton, IL. Antislavery publisher Elijah Lovejoy was killed and his press, hidden in this warehouse, was destroyed, with the pieces thrown into the Mississippi River.
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    Elijah Lovejoy Faced Down Violent Mobs to Champion Abolition and the Free Press

    Lovejoy, who ran a weekly paper called the Observer, was repeatedly targeted by mobs over his persistent writings against slavery.
    by Ken Ellingwood via HNN on May 2, 2021
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First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery
Ken Ellingwood
2021
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