Proslavery rioters burn the printshop of abolitionist Elijah P Lovejoy in Alton Illinois 1835. Hand-colored woodcut

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Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Photo credit: © North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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