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But one race : the life of Robert Purvis / Margaret Hope Bacon.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacon, Margaret Hope.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898.
- Purvis, Robert.
- African American abolitionists--Biography.
- African American abolitionists.
- Abolitionists--United States--Biography.
- Abolitionists.
- Antislavery movements.
- History.
- African Americans.
- United States.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- African American civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Ancestral Chart of the Purvis Family xiii
- 1 Of Southern Birth 7
- 2 The City of Brotherly Love 17
- 3 Present at the Beginning 29
- 4 World Traveler 43
- 5 "We are Not Intruders Here" 59
- 6 To Aid the Fleeing Slave 75
- 7 A Time of Loss 89
- 8 Gentleman Farmer 101
- 9 "This Wicked law" 117
- 10 "Are We Not Men?" 131
- 11 "A Proud Day for the Colored Man" 145
- 12 "Equality of Rights for All" 161
- 13 The Freedmen's Savings Bank 175
- 14 "We are To the Manner Born" 191
- 15 "His Magnificent Record" 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791470075
- 9780791470077
- OCLC:
- 67727805
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