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Which of the following abolitionists was murdered by an anti-abolition mob?

A. Frederick Douglass
B. Elijah Lovejoy
C. William Lloyd Garrison
D. John Brown

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The answer is B. Elijah Lovejoy. In 1837, a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois, murdered Elijah Parish Lovejoy as he defended the site of his anti-slavery newspaper, The Alton Observer. The mob wrecked his press and set fire to the warehouse where he stored his abolitionist materials.

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