Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Lovejoy's Impractical Goal :
Methods He Lovejoy Used To Improve American Life :
- In St. Louis , Lovejoy started a religous newspaper known as the ' St.Louis Observer ' in which he advocated the abolition of slavey .
- After his press was destroyed by a pro slavey angry white mob , he moved to Alton , Illinois in 1836 where he became an active member of an Anti - Slavey Movement Society .
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Criticism He Recieved :
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LoveJoy's Success In Promoting Reform :
- Born : November 8th , 1802 in Albion , Maine .
- Son of a Congregational Presbyterian minister - Reverend Daniel Lovejoy .
- Graduated from Waterville College where he was valedictorian & class poet .
- After graduated he traveled West to St. Louis & became the editor for a local newspaper supporting Henry Clay for president .
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