For the British Member of Parliament, see Robert Purvis (politician).
Robert Purvis
Purvis c.1840–1849
Born
(1810-08-04)August 4, 1810
Charleston, South Carolina
Died
April 15, 1898(1898-04-15) (aged 87)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]
Nationality
American- Moroccan
Known for
Abolitionist, Underground Railroad
Spouse(s)
Harriet Forten Purvis Tracy Townsend
Children
8, including Harriet Purvis, Jr., Charles Burleigh Purvis
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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 were three-quarters European by ancestry and 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, Jewish, and Moroccan 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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Network. Purvis for years co-hosted the Morning Glory show on EWTN Radio, which ended in December 2020 when the show was abruptly canceled. Purvis was not...
assistance from the newly autonomous Serbia.: 339 African-American activist RobertPurvis refused to pay his Pennsylvania state taxes in protest against the state's...
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real estate. Cassey was real estate business partners with RobertPurvis. Cassey and Purvis jointly owned a Bucks County farm, which was visited frequently...
African American temperance activists – including James W. C. Pennington, RobertPurvis, William Watkins, William Whipper, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Sarah Parker...
bondage via a railroad that 'went underground all the way to Boston'". Dr. Robert Clemens Smedley wrote that following slave catchers' failed searches and...
during the antebellum years. Prominent African-American members included RobertPurvis, who was admitted in 1842 as the Society's first Black member. In 1984...
movements. Purvis was born in Philadelphia on April 14, 1842. Purvis's parents were abolitionists RobertPurvis and Harriet Forten Purvis, both free people...
vicinity of Savournon in the Hautes-Alpes in August 1944. SOE agents are second from right, (possibly) Skarbek, third John Roper, fourth, RobertPurvis....
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