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Description: Robert Purvis (1810–1898), a 19th-century American abolitionist, was the son of a British cotton broker and a mixed-race mother of North African and German Jewish descent. He founded abolitionist groups including the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library
Title: Robert Purvis, Abolitionist
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