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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Abolitionists. (search)
lips, journeyed through the Northern States as the agents of the National Society, founding State branches and everywhere lecturing on abolition, and were often met by mob violence. In Connecticut, in 1833, Miss Prudence Crandall, of Canterbury, opened her school for negro girls. The Legislature, by act of May 24, 1833, forbade the establishment of such schools, and imprisoned Miss Crandall. Being set at liberty, she was ostracized by her neighbors and her school broken up. For a year George Thomson, who had done much to secure British emancipation in the West Indies, lectured throughout the North. He was mobbed in Boston, and escaped from the country in disguise, in November, 1835. On Nov. 7, 1837, Elijah P. Lovejoy (q. v.), a Presbyterian minister, who had established an abolition newspaper in Alton, Ill., was mobbed and shot to death. These occurrences did not cease entirely until the beginning of the Civil War. in 1861. In the South rewards were offered for the capture of pr
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from Europe. (search)
om Europe. The latest advices from Liverpool are to the 15th ult. We make up the following summary of the more interesting news: The London News, of the 11th ult., says: The Glasgow Emancipation Society lately sent a memorial to Earl Russell, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding an iron screw steamer, at one time named the Canton, but now named the Pampero. The memorial stated that this vessel bad lately been launched from the building-yard of Messrs. James & George Thomson here, and was being rapidly fitted out in Glasgow harbor; that she was currently, and the memorialists believed truly, reported to have been constructed for the Confederate Government; that she was of a similar construction to the Alabama, and, like her, intended to prey upon the merchant ships of the Northern States; that she was fitted up with gun-ports, ring-bolts for guns, &c., although the gun-ports had since been filled up and the fittings to moved, and these things disguised as mu