04237mpc  2200625 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025035002400066035002200090040002900112100006100141245007300202300002000275351018500295545024500480520088800725561027901613500027901892510017602171524010602347650003402453650002802487650003802515650003402553651004402587650004402631650003902675610003402714600003702748700003102785700002902816700003802845700003902883700003402922700004402956700003203000710003303032700004103065700004003106700004603146700003303192700001703225700003203242700002903274700004803303700003703351700003103388700003203419700003503451700002303486700002403509700002403533905002103557948003303578209535820020423174014.0910506q17491933nyu                 eng d  a(CStRLIN)NYCV91A279  a(NIC)notisAKT4060  aNICcNICeappmdNICdNIC1 aMay, Samuel J.q(Samuel Joseph),d1797-1871,ecollector.00aMay Anti-Slavery manuscript collection,f1749-1933g(bulk 1840-1880)  a10.5 linear ft.  aOrganized into these series: Maria and Henry Chapman papers, Lydia Maria Child papers, letters from other abolitionists, Freedmen's Aid Organization indexes, and bound manuscripts.  aSamuel Joseph May (1797-1871) was an American Unitarian minister and civil libertarian, one of the founders of the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832 and of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833; he also worked for women's rights.  aConsists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included are May's diaries from 1859-1861 and 1865-1870; correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University. Correspondents include Lyman Abbott, John Brown, Henry Grafton Chapman, Maria Weston Chapman, David Lee Child, Lydia Maria Child, Daniel Willard Fiske, William Lloyd Garrison, D.C. Haynes, George William Harris, H.B. Holmes, Oliver Otis Howard, Oliver Johnson, Joseph May, Lucretia F. May, Samuel May Jr., Samuel Joseph May, James Miller McKim, William Forster Mitchell, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Wendell Phillips, Reuben Tomlinson, George Cabot Ward, and Theodore G. Wright.  aCore of collection donated to Cornell University by Samuel Joseph May in 1870; the collection was subsequently built by abolitionists and friends of the library in response to calls for material by the university librarian, Daniel Willard Fiske, and the university trustees.  aLarge book and pamphlet collection concerning slavery and the anti-slavery movement also held in the repository, including slave narratives; abolitionist tracts, sermons, and letters; poetry and hymns, and documents of state governments and organizations concerning slavery.3 aDescribed in: Lindsay, Crawford Bernard. The Cornell University Special Collection on Slavery: American Publications Through 1840 (Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1949).  aMay Anti-Slavery Collection, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. 0aAbolitionistszUnited States. 0aSlaveryzUnited States. 0aAfro-AmericansxHistoryyTo 1863. 0aAfro-AmericansxCivil rights. 0aUnited StatesxRace relationsxHistory. 0aWomen's rightszUnited StatesxHistory. 0aDomestic relationszUnited States.20aCornell University.bLibrary.10aMcKim, James Miller,d1810-1874.1 aAbbott, Lyman,d1835-1922.1 aBrown, John,d1800-1859.1 aChapman, Henry Grafton,dd. 1842.1 aChapman, Maria Weston,d1806-1885.1 aChild, David Lee,d1794-1874.1 aChild, Lydia Maria Francis,d1802-1880.1 aFiske, Willard,d1831-1904.2 aFreedmen's Aid Organization.1 aGarrison, William Lloyd,d1805-1879.1 aHarris, George William,d1849-1917.1 aHoward, O. O.q(Oliver Otis),d1830-1909.1 aJohnson, Oliver,d1809-1889.1 aMay, Joseph.1 aMay, Lucretia F.,dd. 1865.1 aMay, Samuel,d1810-1899.1 aMay Samuel J.q(Samuel Joseph),d1797-1871.1 aMcKim, James Miller,d1810-1874.1 aMitchell, William Forster.1 aMott, Lucretia,d1793-1880.1 aPhillips, Wendell,d1811-1884.1 aTomlinson, Reuben.1 aWard, George Cabot.1 aWright, Theodore G.  a19950513120000.02 a20020423bmdmnr1ermcf?h?