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But one race : the life of Robert Purvis

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Main Author: Bacon, Margaret Hope.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
Subjects and Genres:
Purvis, Robert, > 1810-1898.
African American abolitionists > Biography.
Abolitionists > United States > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
Antislavery movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Of southern birth
  • The city of brotherly love
  • Present at the beginning
  • World traveler
  • "We are not intruders here"
  • To aid the fleeing slave
  • A time of loss
  • Gentleman farmer
  • "This wicked law"
  • "Are we not men?"
  • "A proud day for the colored man"
  • "Equality of rights for all"
  • The Freedman's savings bank
  • "We are to the manner born"
  • "His magnificent record."

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