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About Robert Purvis
Robert Purvis 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.
Everything about Robert Purvis →- Occupation
- civil rights advocate, abolitionist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 4, 1810
- Died
- April 15, 1898