The Gentlemen's Mob

Описание: 19th Century Boston was a riotous town, and in past episodes, we’ve examined everything from anti-draft riots (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/th...) to anti-catholic riots (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/th...) to anti-immigrant riots (http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/th...) that took place in this city in the 19th century. The incident on Washington Street on October 21, 1835 was different, however. Where most of Boston’s 19th century riots erupted from street violence among and directed by the working classes, the mob’s attack on the Female Anti Slavery Society and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison was led by a group characterized as “gentlemen of property and influence.” Enraged by the audacity of radical calls for immediate abolition, this mob of respectable gentlemen broke down the doors, scattered members of the Female Anti Slavery Society, nearly lynched William Lloyd Garrison, and inspired abolitionist leader Maria Chapman to exclaim, “If this is the last bulwark of freedom, we may as well die here as anywhere!”




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The Gentlemen’s Mob




• Our header image (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/s...) is from the collection of the BPL.


• Diary of Bradley Newcomb Cumings (https://www.masshist.org/database/2445) .


• Frederick Douglass’s Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston (https://constitutioncenter.org/the-co...) .


• Patrick Browne’s post about the riot (https://historicaldigression.com/2016...) .


• Letter from George Thompson to William Lloyd Garrison (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/s...) about the riot.


• Francis Jackson Garrison’s biography (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/t...) of William Lloyd Garrison.


• Hindus, Michael S. “A City of Mobocrats and Tyrants: Mob Violence in Boston, 1747-1863. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/42909637) ” Issues in Criminology, vol. 6, no. 2, 1971


• William P Marchione, Boston Miscellany: An Essential History of the Hub (https://bookshop.org/a/17788/97815962...) .


• Letter about the riot from Angeline Grimke to William Lloyd Garrison (https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.056...) .


• 1835 Constitution of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society (https://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/wr...) .


• October 24, 1835 Liberator (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/b...) (pages 1 and 3)


• October 31, 1835 Liberator (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/b...) (pages 1, 2, 3)


• November 7, 1835 Liberator (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/b...) (pages 2, 3, 4)


• November 14, 1835 Liberator (https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/b...) (page 4)