First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery / Ken Ellingwood.
2021
KF4545.S5 E45 2021 (Mapit)
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Title
First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery / Ken Ellingwood.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Imprint
New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
Copyright
©2021
Description
xiii, 351 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Where the evil existed
A land of strangers
Brethren
The only weapon
Nothing but a newspaper
To the west
The ashes of McIntosh
A judge named Lawless
Mr. Birney frees his slaves
Incendiary missiles
The south builds a barricade
A right to interfere
The odious doctrines of Elijah Lovejoy
A band of lawless men
The wise and good
Effects most happy
No right to be neutral
A train of mournful consequences
Tin horns and torches
A martyr in the cause.
A land of strangers
Brethren
The only weapon
Nothing but a newspaper
To the west
The ashes of McIntosh
A judge named Lawless
Mr. Birney frees his slaves
Incendiary missiles
The south builds a barricade
A right to interfere
The odious doctrines of Elijah Lovejoy
A band of lawless men
The wise and good
Effects most happy
No right to be neutral
A train of mournful consequences
Tin horns and torches
A martyr in the cause.
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and index.
Call Number
KF4545.S5 E45 2021
Language
English
ISBN
1643137026 (hardcover)
9781643137025 (hardcover)
9781643137025 (hardcover)
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