Printed article about the Samuel Joseph May library of "books and pamphlets relating to Slavery and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States, " which he bequeathed to Cornell University. The article was written to urge others to augment this collection with their own materials. Also present is an undated print copy of a photograph of Samuel Joseph May., 1874

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Box 18, Folder 49-50

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1 items

Biographical / historical:

Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871) was an American Unitarian minister and reformer from Syracuse, New York, who attended Harvard University. In 1825, he married Lucretia Flagge Coffin and had five children. He was active in abolition, educational reform, and women's rights movements. He also began and edited a biweekly, "The Liberal Christian."

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