The Boston Gentlemen's Mob: Maria Chapman and the Abolition Riot of 1835 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467150910)

Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press--it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other gentlemen of property and standing angered by an emergent antislavery movement. They break up a women's abolitionist meeting and seize newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison. While city leaders stand by silently, a small group of women had the courage to speak out. Author Josh Cutler tells the story of the Gentlemen's Mob through the eyes of four key participants: antislavery reformer Maria Chapman; pioneering schoolteacher Susan Paul; the city's establishment mayor, Theodore Lyman; and Wendell Phillips, a young attorney who wanders out of his office to watch the spectacle. The day's events forever changed the course of the abolitionist movement.

Author: Josh S. Cutler
ISBN-10: 1467150916
ISBN-13: 9781467150910
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2021
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.79h x 5.12w x 0.43d