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Robert Purvis - Anti-Slavery Activist
Another Name That Has Been Lost To History
The second of three sons to a wealthy cotton broker and Harriet Judah, a free woman of color. His father was a British immigrant cotton merchant. Purvis's maternal grandmother was another free woman-of-color and grandfather was a prominent Jewish-American, Charleston flour merchant Baron Judah.
With the benefits of a financially successful family, Purvis began his opposition to slavery at a very young age. When Purvis was nine, his father moved the family to Philadelphia where Purvis attended the Pennsylvania Abolition Society’s Clarkson School. Shortly thereafter, Purvis continued his education at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
In 1833, Robert Purvis also helped to establish the Library Company of Colored People as well as the Anti-Slavery Society in Philadelphia, both of which engaged in abolitionist activity.
In that same year Purvis also became associated with William Lloyd Garrison’s American Anti-slavery Society and in 1834 traveled to Europe to speak publicly, raise funds and engage in meetings with high ranking European officials in the campaign to end slavery.
His luxurious Philadelphia home was now well known for entertaining distinguished abolitionists from both America and from Europe.
Purvis remained active in his campaign to repeal Pennsylvania state laws that barred African Americans from voting. In his effort, Purvis drafted the document "Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened with Disfranchisement" in 1838.
His political efforts were also directed toward women’s rights, prison reform and prohibition.
In 1883 Robert Purvis presided over the ceremonious 50 year anniversary meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Purvis died in Philadelphia on April 15, 1898.
- See more at: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/purvis-robert-1810-1898#sthash.j4Os3R3K.dpuf
Robert and his two brothers (William, born in 1806, and Joseph, born in 1812) were three-quarters European by ancestry. Robert Purvis was 50 years old when the Civil War began.
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Friday Funnies: Robert Purvis
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.
~Robert Purvis
It the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
Robert Purvis.
Robert Purvis
(Moroccan, German Jewish, English) [American]
Known as: Abolitionist (Helped establish the Library Company of Colored People and the American Anti-Slavery Society; Involved in the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee which sheltered slaves on the Underground Railroad)
More Information: National Park Service: Robert Purvis, Robert Purvis: President of the Underground Railroad, BlackPast: Robert Purvis, Robert Purvis' Wikipedia page
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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.
Robert Purvis
"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."
~Robert Purvis
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
Robert Purvis
