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    "title": "Letter from Samuel May, Boston, to John Bishop Estlin, May 2nd and 3rd, 1848",
    "description": "May says that Frederick Douglass never forwarded money consigned to him from Bristol. He considers a concentration of \"anti-slavery time and means on the free produce\" issue most unwise. May expresses doubt that Henry Bibb will make it to England. He describes an unexpectedly successful anti-slavery fair in Worcester. May tells of the attempt of eighty slaves to escape from the District of Columbia and the resulting dispute in Congress. May asserts that \"we may see yet in this country, a change as sudden and as great taking place, as that which has now overspread Europe.\" He mentions the Chartist disturbances and informs Estlin that the reply of the Irish Unitarians was disapproved by William Lloyd Garrison as \"twaddle.\" May says the reply to the Bridgewater address is in the hands of Chapman Brothers, London. He also mentions \"Howitt's Journal\" and a speech by Wendell Phillips.",
    "date": "[\"May 2, 1848–May 3, 1848\"]",
    "year": 1848,
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        "May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899",
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        "Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century",
        "Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century",
        "Antislavery movements--United States",
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        "May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899",
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