¿Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs repeatedly destroyed his press and then took his life. Lovejoy's death turned slavery into a national debate and helped mobilize the abolitionist movement. It also made people more committed to protecting free speech and freedom from punishment by private citizens.
This is the life story of a man who insisted on his constitutional right to speak freely about unpopular subjects and refused to be intimidated by those who would silence him. Just days before his murder, Elijah told a crowd, "Think not that I regret the choice I have made. While all around me is violence and tumult, all is peace within."
A fascinating and informative read for children who enjoy history, biographies and stories of coping with adversity. As relevant today as when Lovejoy lived.
¿¿Suitable for U.S. history and social studies assignments.
Sprache
Zielgruppe
Für Kinder
Interest Age: From 9 to 12 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 196 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-7342336-3-6 (9781734233636)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jennifer Phillips is the gifted author of 30 Days of Hope for Adoptive Parents and the widely praised book, Bringing Lucy Home. She is an adoptive parent to a loving little girl she and her husband affectionately named Lucy. Actively involved in discipling women, she is also a volunteer at her children's school. A psychology graduate of Samford University (Birmingham, Alabama), she served as executive director for the local Sav-A-Life, a national network of crisis pregnancy centers. She and her husband Brian serve in Australia with University Impact, a franchise of Campus Outreach but now still call Birmingham, Alabama home. For more information, visit her blog at jenniferphillipsblog.com.
