Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox: the 1840 election and the making of a partisan nation

with four funerals, the coalition’s seams are laid bare by each group conducting their own remembrance. While we can hardly lay at Lovejoy’s feet the blame for segregated funerals, we are reminded that racism survived moral appeals, legal action, and militant means. How effectively to eradicate racism is still imperfectly addressed. Here, the authors come as close as anyone by pointing to the example of Lovejoy’s work, in concert with the African American community and across gendered roles. The shared labor for emancipation can be just as instructive as critical race theory.