Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American minister and journalist (born 1809)

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

American minister, journalist, and abolitionist (1802–1837)

Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom…