The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Slavery_Society" class="extiw" title="w:American Anti-Slavery Society">w:American Anti-Slavery Society</a> in 1835 mailed a large quantity of abolitionist publications to individuals in the South. Mail with these publications was taken from the Charleston S.C. Post Office and publicly burned. Notice reward poster for [Arthur] Tappan. The men taking the bags labelled U.S. Mail from the Post Office are workingmen, but those standing around the bonfire are well dressed.
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