Postal Campaign
In 1835, the American Anti-Slavery Society selected southern religious and civic leaders, from various reference books, and sent them anti-slavery newspapers and other printed materials. The Postal Campaign made the people who received the mail, in the South, very upset. During the night of July 29, a shipment of mail sent by boat docked at the Charleston, South Carolina harbor. The mail was taken to the local post office and stored over night, before it would be sorted. That night a group named the "Lynch Men" stole the mail from the post office. The next night the "Lynch Men" paraded through the town with 2,000 other people and burned the mail.