Illustration for December—Twelfth Month, The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838, N. Southard, Editor (Boston: Published by Isaac Knapp, Vol. I, No. 3). Caption: "On the 28th of January, 1837, John Hopper, of N. York, was lynched in Savannah, because his father belonged to the same society with Jay, Rush and Franklin." Courtesy The John Hay Library, Brown University. |