[Draft of a resolution of slavery]
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Worcester, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: May tried to persuade the Autumnal Unitarian Conference to pass a resolution declaring that the Gospel of Christ did not warrant or sanction the existence of slavery. May's own comment on his effort was that "there was manifested a great unwillingness to express any opinion on the subject, and the convention adjourned without taking any action upon it."
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title supplied by cataloger.

A preliminary draft in the handwriting of Samuel May, Jr.