But one race : the life of Robert Purvis Margaret Hope Bacon

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.

African American civil rights workers--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.

African Americans.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 279 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

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."

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-266) and index.

ISBN:

0791470075 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780791470077 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

67727805