[Letter to] Dear cousin Sam
Contributors: May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1869
Place of publication: Leicester, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Description: May says that he has been trying to get a chance to write to Samuel Joseph May about his book, "Some Recollections of our Antislavery Conflict." May says that "The Christian Register" has not reviewed the book. He comments on a review by Reverend McAuley. May discusses the attitude of Dr. Ezra Stiles Gannett toward slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, and the acts necessary to qualify a man as an abolitionist. May discusses various persons listed by Samuel Joseph May as prominent abolitionist ministers.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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