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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Samuel Joseph May, March 16, 1837

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Holograph, signed.Henry B. Stanton and John G. Whittier are still in the city. Garrison lectured in a Friends' (Quaker) meetinghouse in Lynn to an audience of two thousand people. The quarterly meeting of the state society is to be held in Lynn, then Boston, "in order to have another chance at our Representatives, before they go home to their constituents. Every thing in the Legislature promises fair. An Almost incredible change has taken place since last year." Garrison received a letter from George Thompson. Garrison urges Samuel J. May to attend the annual meeting in New York. Garrison refers to an article that May sent about Algernon Sidney.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.75.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  5. History
  6. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  7. Sidney, Algernon 1622 1683
  8. Slaver
  9. Society Of Friends
  10. Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) 1805 1887
  11. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  12. United States
  13. Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807 1892

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