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Declaration of the Anti-slavery Convention

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This text shows how abolitionists were spreading there message and what they were trying to accomplish.

Appeal of forty thousand citizens, threatened with disfranchisement, to the people of Pennsylvania. Was in response to the Reform Convention.

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This is a manuscript of the writing of Robert Purvis in response to Pennsylvania trying to pass laws to restrict African Americans.

A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists, offset lithograph by F. Gutekunst, ca. 1851

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This image shows a group of Philadelphia abolitionists including Robert Purvis. There is also Lucretia Mott who was a women suffragette and abolitionists.