ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
Tag: Lynching
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It would only be a few weeks later though when Lovejoy was revisited by another angry mob on November 7, 1837, in Gilman’s Warehouse in Alton. There Elijah Lovejoy was shot and murdered while trying to save his press.
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In 1838, Samuel Audrain emancipated his enslaved man named Absalom White, a preacher and an abolitionist …