Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Samuel Joseph May, Sept. 11, 1854
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Holograph, signed.This letter concerns the difficulty of holding a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in Syracuse because of the lack of speakers. Theodore Parker and Wendell Phillips cannot attend; Lucy Stone can attend only with difficulty. William Wells Brown may arrive in time from England. Samuel May, Jr., thinks that Charles L. Remond and Rev. Foss can attend. Abby Kelley Foster means to attend. Saturday is to be devoted to the Jerry Rescue Celebration. Shortly after this meeting, William Lloyd Garrison must leave for Pennsylvania and Ohio.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.97.
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- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Brown, William Wells 1814? 1884
- Correspondence
- Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- Parker, Theodore 1810 1860
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Remond, Charles Lenox 1810 1873
- Slaver
- Stone, Lucy 1818 1893
- United States