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Declaration of the Anti-slavery Convention

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

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

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

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

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