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Title
Speeches and letters
Names
Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1898 (Questionable)
Place: [Philadelphia, Pa.? : s.n., 1898?]
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Micro R-3546
Topics
African Americans -- Civil rights
Free African Americans
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States
African Americans -- Colonization
Genres
Pamphlets
Notes
Content: "Published by the request of the 'Afro-American League'"
Citation/reference: *ZZ-16625
Content: Correspondence between Robert Purvis and Bayard Taylor -- Speech at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1864 -- Speech at the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1860 -- Correspondence between Robert Purvis and Senator Pomeroy, on the colonization question.
Statement of responsibility: by Robert Purvis. [Full text.]
Physical Description
Microfilms
Extent: [23] p.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 29628482
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12466147
Other local Identifier: *ZT-SEKB p.v. 26 no. 4
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d42a2020-c607-012f-b006-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1810: Creator Born
  • 1898: Creator Died
  • 1898: Created
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Speeches and letters" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1898. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/92e9078f-be6f-f48b-e040-e00a18060a80

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Speeches and letters" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/92e9078f-be6f-f48b-e040-e00a18060a80

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1898). Speeches and letters Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/92e9078f-be6f-f48b-e040-e00a18060a80

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Speeches and letters