{"id":5278,"date":"2010-02-16T00:12:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:58:08","slug":"but-one-race-the-life-of-robert-purvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis"},"content":{"rendered":"

But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

State University of New York Press<\/a>
\nJanuary 2007
\n293 pages
\nHardcover ISBN10: 0-7914-7007-5; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7007-7
\nPaperback ISBN13: 978-0-7914-7008-4<\/p>\n

Margaret Hope Bacon (1921-2011)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights advocate, Robert Purvis.<\/em><\/p>\n

Born in South Carolina<\/a> to a wealthy white father and mixed race mother, Robert Purvis<\/a> (1810\u20131898) was one of the nineteenth century\u2019s leading black abolitionists<\/a> and orators. In this first biography of Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon uses his eloquent and often fierce speeches to provide a glimpse into the life of a passionate and distinguished man, intimately involved with a wide range of major reform movements, including abolition, civil rights, Underground Railroad<\/a> activism, women\u2019s rights, Irish Home Rule<\/a>, Native American rights, and prison reform. Citing his role in developing the Philadelphia Vigilant Committee<\/a>, an all black organization that helped escaped slaves secure passage to the North, the New York Times<\/em> described Purvis at the time of his death as the president of the Underground Railroad. Voicing his opposition to a decision by the state of Pennsylvania<\/a> to disenfranchise black voters in 1838, Purvis declared \u201cthere is but one race, the human race.\u201d But One Race<\/em> is the dramatic story of one of the most important figures of his time.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n