Samuel J. May Anti‐slavery Collection

The Samuel J. May Anti‐slavery Collection provides free access to a collection of pamphlets covering the history of the American anti‐slavery movement. The Reverend Samuel J. May was an American abolitionist and a close friend of Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University's first president. May served as a general agent and secretary of the Massachusetts Anti‐Slavery Society and his house was a station on the Underground Railroad. In 1870 May donated his substantial collection of anti‐slavery materials to the Cornell University Library. The collection continued to grow as other abolitionists in the USA and Great Britain contributed their documents. It now...