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1 online resource (192 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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(epub) |
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| Summary |
"Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press--it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other "gentlemen of property and standing" angered by an emergent antislavery movement. They break up a women's abolitionist meeting and seize newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison. While city leaders stand by silently, a small group of women had the courage to speak out. Author Josh Cutler tells the story of the Gentlemen's Mob through the eyes of four key participants: antislavery reformer Maria Chapman; pioneering schoolteacher Susan Paul; the city's establishment mayor, Theodore Lyman; and Wendell Phillips, a young attorney who wanders out of his office to watch the spectacle. The day's events forever changed the course of the abolitionist movement."-- Provided by Freading. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781439673973 (epub) |
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9781467150910 (print) |
| Standard No. |
9781439673973 |
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