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Letter from Samuel May, Boston, Massachusetts, to John Bishop Estlin, Feb. 2, 1849

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Holograph, signed.Title supplied by cataloger.May announces the shipment to Estlin of periodicals and other items, including a "Panorama" of Boston from the top of Bunker Hill. He says Boston is a pro-slavery community due to the city's cotton mills. He reports that the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society was very successful and that two escaped slaves, William Craft and his wife, were in attendance. May says that his wife sends Miss Estlin a copy of "Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal" by John Greenleaf Whittier. May discusses Ohio's "Black laws" and mentions the attempted revival of religion by Unitarians.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop) 1785 1855
  5. History
  6. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  7. Slaver
  8. United States

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