Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
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- African American National Biography, accessed March 13, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Purvis, Robert; abolitionist, reformer; born 04 August 1810 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States; attended Pittsfield Academy in Massachusetts; published the Liberator (1831) and Thoughts on African Colonization (1832); joined the American Moral Reform Society; participated in Philadelphia City Anti-Slavery Society and launched the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, Harrisburg (1837); president of the Vigilant Association later restructured as the Vigilant Committee Philadelphia (1839); became prominent as the drafter of The Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens, Threatened with Disfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania (1838), vice president of the American Anti-Slavery Society (1841-1865), president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society (1845-1850), member of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (1840-1859); co-organized the Pennsylvania Equal Rights League (1864); was a commissioner of Freedmen's Savings Bank, Washington D.C. (1874-1880); co-founded the American Negro Historical Society (1897); died 15 April 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States)
- His A tribute to the memory of Thomas Shipley, 1836:t.p. (Robert Purvis)
- LC in RLIN, 7/31/96(hdg.: Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898)
- Dictionary of Amer. Negro bio., 1982(Purvis, Robert, Sr.; abolitionist and civil rights leader; prominent in the organization of the American Anti-Slavery Society at Phila., 1833; member of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery; b. 8/4/1810 in Charleston, S.C.; d. 4/15/1898)
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Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 – April 15, 1898) was an American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was likely educated at Amherst Academy, a secondary school in Amherst, Massachusetts. He spent most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1833, he helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1845 to 1850, he served as president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and also traveled to Britain to gain support for the movement. Of mixed race, Purvis and his brothers inherited considerable wealth from their native British father after his death in 1826. Purvis's parents had lived in a common law marriage, prevented from marrying because his mother was a mixed race free woman of color, of Sub-Saharan African and Jewish descent. The sons chose to identify with the black community and used their education and wealth to support abolition of slavery and anti-slavery activities, as well as projects in education to help the advance of African Americans.
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