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Samuel Joseph May (September 12, 1797 – July 1, 1871) was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery.
Explore the digital collection of pamphlets and manuscripts gathered by Reverend Samuel Joseph May, a prominent abolitionist and friend of Cornell's first President Andrew Dickson White. Learn about the history and significance of the anti-slavery movement and the American Civil War through the documents and letters of May and his contemporaries.
Learn about the life and work of Samuel Joseph May, a descendant of John May and a friend of James Freeman, who became a prominent Unitarian minister and a leader in the anti-slavery movement. Read about his education, his pastorate in Connecticut, his advocacy of education, temperance, and peace, and his involvement in the American Anti-slavery Society.
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Learn about Samuel J. May, a humanitarian and abolitionist who donated his collection of anti-slavery pamphlets and manuscripts to Cornell in 1870. Explore his biography, causes, and the collection's contents and significance.
Samuel J. May. Samuel May’s life was forever changed when he heard William Lloyd Garrison lecture about immediate, unconditional emancipation without expatriation in 1830.
Contents. Samuel J. May. American clergyman and religious reformer. Learn about this topic in these articles: advice on Crandall’s school. In Prudence Crandall. …of William Lloyd Garrison and Samuel J. May, she opened on the same premises a new school for “young ladies and little misses of color.”
Learn about Samuel Joseph May, a Unitarian minister, abolitionist, and social activist who fought for racial equality, women's rights, and pacifism. He was a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a leader of the Jerry Rescue, and a friend of William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass.
