The Boston Gentlemen's Mob: Maria Chapman and the Abolition Riot of 1835

The Boston Gentlemen's Mob: Maria Chapman and the Abolition Riot of 1835Violent mobs, racial unrest, attacks on the press it's the fall of 1835 and the streets of Boston are filled with bankers, merchants and other gentlemen of property and standing angered by an emergent antislavery movement. They break up a women's abolitionist meeting and seize newspaper publisher William Lloyd Garrison. While city leaders stand by silently, a small group of women had the courage to speak out. Author Josh Cutler tells the story of the

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