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Enslavement

The Year of Jubilee (1863)

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April 1845: Abolitionist Lecturer Abby Kelley and her Party are Assaulted in Harrisburg

Mobocracy in Harrisburg

Miss Abby Kelly, the well known Abolition lecturer, accompanied by a party of her friends, has been holding a series of meetings in Harrisburg. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings last, while she was lecturing in the Court House, a disgraceful assault was made upon the party by some disorderly persons, who commenced throwing eggs, and in various ways disturbed the meeting. Proceedings of this kind are disgraceful to the capital of the State, and most dishonorable to the character of those engaged in them.

Source: Carlisle Herald & Expositor, 9 April 1845.

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