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Lädt ... First to Fall: Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slaveryvon Ken Ellingwood
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Lovejoy, a white evangelical who insisted on his right to publish against slavery even in pro-slavery towns, was unbending and was eventually the first publisher killed by a pro-slavery mob, though not the last. An important reminder—his white murderers were, as far as the facts indicate, not themselves enslavers (he was killed in a theoretically free state), but felt their interests challenged by his opposition to it, since their town was economically sustained by trade with enslavers and they shared white fear of “servile insurrection” spurred by abolition talk. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as "enemies of the people." In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. First to Fall illuminates this flawed yet heroic figure who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for free press rights in a time when the First Amendment offered little protection for those who dared to critique America's "peculiar institution." Culminating in Lovejoy's dramatic clashes with the pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois--who were destroying printing press after printing press--First to Fall will bring Lovejoy, his supporters and his enemies to life during the raucous 1830s at the edge of slave country. It was a bloody period of innovation, conflict, violent politics, and painful soul-searching over pivotal issues of morality and justice."--Amazon.com. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)326.8092Social sciences Political Science Slavery and emancipation Emancipation Biography And History Abolitionists (Antislavery activists)Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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