Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Dec[ember] 3. 1859

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Title:
Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Dec[ember] 3. 1859
Description:
Samuel Joseph May notifies William Lloyd Garrison that they held "a large and an enthusiastic meeting" the previous evening, and states that the proceedings will be published in the local newspapers, which May will take care to forward to Garrison. May reports that the meeting was commenced with the tolling of a bell every half-minute until they "had tolled the age of Capt. John Brown". May relates that the tone of most of the speakers was "altogether too warlike", and proposes that the North ought to "be kind and generous" whilst "making explicit their determination to see Slavery utterly abolished throughout the land". May expresses his concern regarding the state of the American Anti-Slavery Society's "English agency", and declares his wish that the Executive Committee would appoint William Craft or George Thompson as their salaried agents. May writes that, in regards to the project to send anti-slavery books to "various localities" in the British Isles, there exists a "great want of information respecting American Slavery" in these lands. May concludes by providing Garrison with a list of recommended works to include in these collections.
Author:
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
December 3, 1859
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Meetings--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
African American abolitionists--England--History--19th century
Abolitionists--England--19th century
African American abolitionists--History--19th century
Fugitive slaves--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Meetings
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
African American abolitionists
Abolitionists
Fugitive slaves--United States
American Anti-Slavery Society. Executive Committee
May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871
Brown, John, 1800-1859
Craft, William
Thompson, George, 1804-1878
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Christian Register (Boston, Mass. : 1843)
Independent (New York, N.Y.)
Places:
England
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 13.2 x 21.5 cm.
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Place of origin:
Syracuse, [N.Y.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
4698958
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.29, p.137
Barcode:
39999066762905