Which abolitionist's life shared parallels with Garrison's?
Elijah Lovejoy
Levi Coffin
Harriet Tubman
Fredrick Douglass
Answer
Elijah Lovejoy was an abolitionist from Alton, Illinois who was killed by a pro-slavery mob. Like Garrison, Lovejoy was a pacifist who believed that slavery could be abolished through moral suasion. He published an abolitionist newspaper called the Alton Observer, and he was frequently harassed by pro-slavery mobs. In 1837, a mob destroyed his printing press, and Lovejoy was killed when he tried to defend it.
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