Robert Purvis
Robert Purvis
Robert Purviswas an American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was educated at Amherst College in Massachusetts, but lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1833 he helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Library Company of Colored People. From 1845–1850 he served as president of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and also traveled to England to gain support for the movement...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth4 August 1810
CountryUnited States of America
I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.
We love our native country, much as it has wronged us; and in the peaceable exercise of our inalienable rights, we will cling to it . . . Will you starve our patriotism?
. . . what a burning shame it is that many of the pieces on the subject of slavery and the slave trade, contained in different school books, have been lost sight of, or been subject to the pruning knife of the slaveholding expurgatorial system!
It is the safeguard of the strongest that he lives under a government which is obliged to respect the voice of the weakest.
I am proud to be an American Citizen.