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Collection Reference Number GLC00267.089
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1870s 
Title Papers related to the Garrison mob
Date 1870
Author Lyman, Theodore (1833-1897)  
Document Type Pamphlet
Content Description Describes the October 1835 mob which kept William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper, from having a meeting where Mr. George Thompson, an abolitionist, was to speak. Garrison had to be put in the jail to be protected from the mob. Printed by Welch, Bigelow, and Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Subjects Law  Abolition  Reform Movement  African American History  Slavery  Mobs and Riots  Journalism  
People Lyman, Theodore (1833-1897)  Garrison, William Lloyd (1805-1879)  
Place written Cambridge, Massachusetts
Theme African Americans; Arts & Literature; Law; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945