Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1834 Nov[ember] 24

Samuel Joseph May writes to William Lloyd Garrison describing his last visit with the family of George Benson, Garrison's in-laws. He then says that George Thompson's "reception in Providence is most auspicious" and asks Garrison if he has found a place for Thompson to lecture in Boston yet. May also asks Garrison about "Dr. [William Ellery] Channing," questioning if he "has indeed taken the position of a real abolitionist?" He complains of not receiving a bundle of pamphlets from Garrison about Prudence Crandall's trial, and asks for additional pamphlets, including Charles Follen's "Address to the People of the U.S.A.," which he intends to send to sympathetic slaveholders in the South. May also discusses a letter he is planning to write to his brother "Thomas of Concord showing him that holding human beings as property is a sin of the deepest dye." In the postscript, May asks to "Remember me kindly to Mr. [Isaac] Knapp" and provides instructions for Garrison to send the bundle of pamphlets he requested.

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