Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Sep[tember] 9 1854
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Samuel Joseph May informs William Lloyd Garrison that the Jerry Rescue Committee has unanimously voted to celebrate the rescue on September 30, provided that the American Anti-Slavery Society "would give way for that purpose". May writes that he has taken the liberty of answering the committee to inform them that the American Anti-Slavery Society would "be very happy" to set aside the "forenoon and afternoon of Saturday to the celebration" so as to ensure that Garrison and others at the anti-slavery meeting would be able to join them. May recounts the tentative schedule for the weekend's speakers, and informs Garrison that if he proposes Yerrinton serve as the meeting's reporter, then they would be pleased to engage him for the Jerry Rescue Celebration as well. May reports that yesterday saw them lay the cornerstone of the "N.Y. State Asylum for Idiots".
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- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Civil Disobedience
- Congresses
- Congresses And Conventions
- Correspondence
- Fugitive Slaves
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
- New York
- Parker, Theodore 1810 1860
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- Stone, Lucy 1818 1893
- Syracuse States School (N.Y.)
- United States
- Vigilance Committees
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Yerrinton, J. M. W. (James Manning Winchell) 1893