Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America by Leonard L. Richards
Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America

Leonard L. Richards

Gentlemen of Property and Standing: Anti-abolition Mobs in Jacksonian America

Leonard L. Richards

208 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

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"A generation before the Civil War, riots flared up in many Northern cities. In New York, Boston, Utica, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, tormented free blacks, and razed the Negro quarters; and in Alton, Illinois, the newspaper...

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