Episode 1 of 2
Mob Attack on Warehouse
- When
- November 6, 1837
- Where
- Gilman's warehouse
A pro-slavery mob, said to be mostly Missourians, attacked Gilman's warehouse in Alton on the evening of November 6, 1837.
Pro-slavery partisans approached Gilman's warehouse, where Lovejoy had hidden his printing press. A mob, said by Appleton's to be composed mostly of Missourians, attacked the building on the evening of November 6, 1837. The mob stormed the warehouse and threw Lovejoy's printing press into the Mississippi River.
Sources
- Elijah Parish Lovejoy Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-01
- Alton, Illinois Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-03
Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.