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PURVIS, ROBERT; Sr. Autograph Letter Signed, to Wendell Garrison, son of William Lloyd Garrison, regarding his father. 2 pages, 8vo; with the integral blank leaf; on personal letterhead. Philadelphia, 22 May 1885
In this letter Purvis answers a number of questions regarding the old guard abolitionists, James McCrummell, James Forten, Joseph Cassey, Joseph Sharpless, and Frederick Hinton. It was his friendship with James Forten and Robert Purvis that convinced William Lloyd Garrison to abandon his earlier ideas of colonization in favor of emancipation. Robert Purvis (1810-1898), black abolitionist and civil rights leader, was born in Charleston SC to mixed parents. His father was a white cotton broker and his mother Harriet Judah, though freeborn was the daughter of a slave.
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