伊萊亞．佩利許．洛夫喬伊 (Elijah Parish Lovejoy) 被一群支持奴隸制度的暴民所殺
1837年11月7日

西元1831年，因為受到全美各地宗教復興運動的影響，洛夫喬伊賣掉他的公司，回到東岸研究宗教。在那裡，有一群來自聖路易士的商人延攬洛夫喬伊回到聖路易士擔任一份新報紙的編輯。這份報紙就是「聖路易士觀察家報」，是為了推廣宗教與道德教育所發行的報紙。因為有包括愛德華．比徹（Edward Beecher，他是「黑奴籲天錄」作者Harriet Beecher Stowe的哥哥）等主張廢除奴隸制度者的支持下，洛夫喬伊寫了一系列反奴隸制度的社論。後來，洛夫喬伊反對奴隸制度，並且支持廢止這個制度的信念越來越堅定，他所寫的報導也越來越強烈。

In 1831, caught up in the powerful religious revival movement sweeping the U.S., Lovejoy sold his business and went back East to study religion. There, a group of St. Louis businessmen recruited Lovejoy to return to St. Louis as editor of a new paper, The Saint Louis Observer, designed to promote religious and moral education. Supported by abolitionist friends such as Edward Beecher (the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), he wrote anti-slavery editorials. Over time, Lovejoy's writing against slavery and in support of abolition became more strongly worded.

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