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Try running an anti-Slavery newpaper in Charleston in 1855 and see how long it would be before it was burned out.

My very remote Uncle, Isaac Knapp, published The Abolitionist and was burned out twice - in Boston!

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There were supporters of the Slaveocracy everywhere there were numbers of Democrats. And many opposed to slavery were also opposed to the abolitionists who were too radical. However, the arsonists in Boston were not State sanctioned as they were throughout the South.

But there were abolitionist papers throughout the north which survived for years and drove the Slaveocrats mad with hatred. In the South it was routine to steal them from the Federal mails. Southern papers were not premitted by law to write about the revolution of the slaves in Santo Domingo for fear it would give the Slaveocracy's victims ideas. Even books and magazines with subversive ideas were banned and not allowed to circulate within the South.