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Correction re: Samuel May was not Louisa Alcott's grandfather...his sister was Louisa's mother, Abigail May Alcott. The Alcott/Orchard House website can verify this: [1]That makes him Louisa Alcott's uncle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.202.139.247 (talk) 05:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This article should be merged with Samuel_May [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.230.34.59 (talk) 14:39, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've merged parts of it. Here's the rest, if anyone thinks it needs incorporation:
He was an advocate for women's suffrage, freedom and civil rights for African Americans and just rights for workers. He was a secretary for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. His beliefs and efforts were not something that were near being accepted publicly, and because of this, he often argued amongst his colleagues, church members and the public. He was forced to resign from two of his churches, and was mobbed five times during his antislavery tour in 1835. He organized the Windham County Peace Society, which was radical at its time. He wrote a sermon in 1846 called "the Rights and Conditions of women," which was later reprinted as Woman’s Rights Pamphlet number 1, and invited Angelina Grimke to speak to his congregation on abolitionism. His house was actually a part of the Underground Railroad between Boston, Syracuse and Canada. In addition to these tireless contributions of movement, he was involved in the temperance movement, the penal reform movement, and for the better treatment of Native Americans. His congregation in Syracuse is now named the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society. Some Recollections of Our Anti-Slavery Conflict, a book that he wrote, was highly disregarded by white merchants. They insisted that slavery was crucial to the northern economy. May, however, was insistent of its evils.
