Fighting Slavery in Chicago: Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln by Tom Campbell

Fighting Slavery in Chicago: Abolitionists, the Law of Slavery, and Lincoln

Tom Campbell

206 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Charles Volney Dyer came to Chicago in 1835 as physician to the garrison at Fort Dearborn. Outraged at the assassination of abolitionist editor, Elijah Lovejoy, in Alton, Illinois, he rallied Chicogoans to form the Chicago chapter of the Anti-Slav...

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