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Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Massachusetts, to John Bishop Estlin, April 30, 1847

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Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.May informs Estlin that he has not had time to supply information for the second edition of "A Brief Notice of American Slavery, and the Abolition Movement." May recommends Parker Pillsbury's "The Church as It Is: or, the Forlorn Hope of Slavery," but condemns Henry Clapp, Jr. and says that there is nothing in his story about Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. He denies Clapp's assertion that William Lloyd Garrison never advocated disunion in the United States. He says that the Liberty Party was strongly pro-Union and it is doubtful if it suffered more from unpopularity than the old Abolitionists. May affirms that the abolition movement requires great fortitude.
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
  5. History
  6. Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840 1848)
  7. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  8. Slaver
  9. United States

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