Subversive Historian - 10/21/09
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Back in the day on October 21st, 1835, fierce abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison was attacked by a racist mob. In an incident that has come to be known by history as the “Boston Riot,” the advocate for the immediate emancipation of slaves was dragged from a meeting of the Female Anti-Slavery Society. Opponents of abolition authored handbills with titles such as “Outrage,” that encouraged people to obstruct such gatherings wherever they took place. When word reached that British abolitionist George Thompson was going to speak on behalf of the cause in Boston, a mob assembled to look for him. At the meeting, they found Garrison instead who was reviled for his newsletter “The Liberator,” which published staunch views against slavery. The abolitionist was then dragged through the streets of the city by rope. Garrison was saved from certain death by the mayor who put him in prison for the night for his own protection.
Many newspapers wrote approvingly of the mob’s actions. The Boston Gazette incredulously penned that Garrison was saved from “a fate he well deserved.” No doubt that such journalists also felt that slaves were dealt the fate they deserved as well.
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