Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Brooklyn, [Connecticut], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1831 July 5

Samuel Joseph may writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking why he did not stop in Brooklyn on his return, telling him that "I have looked for you every day for a fortnight." He tells Garrison he "wrote anew my Sermon on Slavery" and delivered it in celebration of American Independence Day in Brooklyn and later in Providence, but he hopes he "will do more justice to this great subject than I did in Boston." May then asks Garrison to ask Samuel Edmund Sewall to send him "either [George M.] Stroud's volume of Slave Laws or a copy of the table of Contents, .. together with the name of the compiler and the date of the publication." He then asks Garrison to write him about his trip to the South, and in the postscript, he says he will not send the continuation of his sermon until the following week.

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