https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm Made with love en-us 2017-10-30 15:24:16 UTC 2017-11-03 12:53:16 UTC hello@padlet.com eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/201772850 Elijah was against slavery. He was a supporter of the Whig party at a time when the Democratic party was popular. He opposed dueling and the "evils of alcohol." While he wrote for the observer ]]> 2017-10-30 15:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/201772850 eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202745918 Elijah defended the rights of slaves. While he was in St. Louis he opened one of the first public school in the area. He was an observer which collected many anti-slavery messages which brought awareness to the conditions of slaves. ]]> 2017-11-02 00:27:13 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202745918 eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202746456 Through many of his editorials large groups of citizens believed that either that either freedom would abolish slavery or slavery would abolish freedom. While preaching at the Presbyterian churches he preached that slaves had souls and need religious educations just as much as people did.  

]]> 2017-11-02 00:30:36 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202746456 eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202746845 2017-11-02 00:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202746845 eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202746914 Since slave owners didn't like that he was taking the side of the slaves but was not considering himself an abolitionist many white men would threaten him, but even then Lovejoy was adamant in preaching articles and sermons about slaver.  ]]> 2017-11-02 00:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202746914 eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202747733 Lovejoy died for freedom of press and freedom of slaves. Elijah helped pave the way for those to fight for what is right even in self-sacrifice. Many people weren’t really thinking about the slave system until after his death. A young rising politician by the name of Abraham Lincoln denounced a mob rule “Let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and tear the character of his own, and his children’s liberty.”]]> 2017-11-02 00:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/202747733 eeffertz19 https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/203007040 Martin Luther King Junior because he stood up for the rights of colored people. ]]> 2017-11-02 16:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eeffertz19/kyy4s6k4tkzm/wish/203007040