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Transferware Pitcher, circa 1840
Beginning in the 1830s, some people began to speak out against slavery. Most of these "abolitionists" were white Northerners who had never actually come in contact with enslaved people. This pitcher commemorates the martyrdom of Elijah P. Lovejoy, an anti-slavery newspaper editor in southern Illinois who was murdered by a mob of pro-slavery advocates. |