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Catholics, abolitionists and free black people. boston created one of the country's full-time police departments at the urging of boston's mayor who argued it was needed in the wake of three riots. the burning of a catholic convent and girls school by a mob in 1834, the riot outside a meeting of the female anti-slavery where a crowd of thousands attacked abolitions and caused them to flee and when volunteer firefighters fought with the attendants of a catholic funeral procession in a brawl that lasted for hours before the muilitia intervened. in the summer of 1834 thousands of new yorkers spen...
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