... - to refuse to buy anything made or grown by slave labor. Abolitionism was becoming more than a political campaign, it was a religious crusade. Elijah Lovejoy, a white abolitionist, published an anti-slavery newspaper in Illinois. Angry mobs demolished three of his printing presses, and in 1837, as he tried to protect a fourth press, Lovejoy was killed. Then later on the second Fugitive Slave ... Act in 1850 was passed and it made things even worse, for now respected black citizens- craftsman, publishers, business owners- could be taken from their homes and sent in chains back to the cot...

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