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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [New York], to Mary Anne Estlin, 1859 Dec[ember] 11

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Samuel Joseph May writes to Mary Anne Estlin in regards to sending her a newspaper containing a report of the city meeting he attended. This report contained information on a Traffic affair and sympathy towards the family of John Brown. He has sent Edwin Chapamn the last member of the Anti-Slavery Standard. He talks about John Brown and says, "I cannot approve John Brown's resort to an expedient which involved the danger of so much bloodshed. But I honor his spirit of self sacrifice-and reverence his magnaminity." He writes of his time in Liverpool before his departure, mentioning that he gave an anti-slavery speech on the last day. His daguerrotype arrived and he is pleased with it. He writes of all the women, including Lucretia Mott, Lydia M. Child, and Maria W. Chapman who are doing more for the antislavery cause than most others.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Brown, John 1800 1859
  4. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  5. Child, Lydia Maria 1802 1880
  6. Correspondence
  7. England
  8. Estlin, Mary Anne 1820 1902
  9. Great Britain
  10. History
  11. Lectures And Lecturing
  12. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  13. Meetings
  14. Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
  15. Newspapers
  16. Publishers And Publishing
  17. Publishing
  18. Slaver
  19. United States
  20. Women
  21. Women Abolitionists
  22. Women Social Reformers

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