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    Robert Purvis (August 4, 1810 – April 15, 1898) was an American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was...
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  • Robert Purvis (1810–1898), was an American abolitionist. Robert Purvis, Bob Purvis, Rob Purvis, and other variations can also refer to: Bob Purvis (footballer)...
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  • John Robert Purvis, CBE (6 July 1938 – 20 March 2022) was a Conservative MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1979–1984) and for Scotland from 1999 to 2009...
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  • years. Purvis left Kent and completed a BA in Film and Photo Arts. Wade graduated from Kent and moved to London where he was later joined by Purvis. They...
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  • Forten Purvis; cousins included Dr. Charles Burleigh Purvis of Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D. C., suffragist and author Harriet Purvis, Jr., and...
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  • Purvis is a surname and occasionally a masculine given name which may refer to: Al Purvis (1929–2009), Canadian ice hockey player Arthur Blaikie Purvis...
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    September 13, 1831, to a Mixed race American, Robert Purvis from South Carolina. Like her father, Purvis was a wealthy man with Moroccan and English lineage...
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    Peterborough. Robert Purvis was born on 5 July 1844 in Roxburghshire, the third son of Joseph Purvis. The family moved to Hexham when Purvis was small. He...
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    Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials. Purvis was born in Timmonsville, South Carolina, to Melvin Horace Purvis, Sr. (1869–1938), a tobacco farmer and...
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    and Sarah Louisa married the prominent abolitionist brothers Robert Purvis and Joseph Purvis, respectively. Educated at Amherst College, they were sons...
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  • suffragists. Purvis worked closely with Susan B. Anthony. She was born in about 1839 to activists Harriet Forten Purvis and Robert Purvis. She was the...
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  • identified parents of Portuguese and African descent from the Azores. Robert Purvis was born to a part Moorish, German Jewish and Sephardic Jewish free...
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    Henry Highland Garnet, Beriah Green, Lucretia Mott, Wendell Phillips, Robert Purvis, Charles Lenox Remond, Sarah Parker Remond, Lucy Stone, and John Greenleaf...
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  • Susan Paul James W.C. Pennington Gabriel Prosser Harriet Forten Purvis Robert Purvis Peter Randolph Charles Bennett Ray Charlotte B. Ray Charles L. Reason...
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    officer and merchant, William Purvis, from Dalgety Bay, Scotland, and a first cousin of American abolitionist Robert Purvis; a noted fine soprano and a...
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  • Robert Wade may refer to: Robert Wade (born 1962), half of the British screenwriting duo Neal Purvis and Robert Wade Robert Wade (chess player) (1921–2008)...
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    during the antebellum years. Prominent African-American members included Robert Purvis, who was admitted in 1842 as the Society's first Black member. In 1984...
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  • activists of the 19th century were multiracial, such as Frederick Douglass, Robert Purvis and James Mercer Langston. They advocated equality for all. The concept...
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    movements. Purvis was born in Philadelphia on April 14, 1842. Purvis's parents were abolitionists Robert Purvis and Harriet Forten Purvis, both free people...
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    African American temperance activists – including James W. C. Pennington, Robert Purvis, William Watkins, William Whipper, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Sarah Parker...
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    officer at the election. Parker, as Sheriff, sent the election writ to Robert Smith, the Bailiff of the Liberty who returned Earl Fitzwilliam [at that...
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    to aid colored persons in distress". The initial impetus came from Robert Purvis, who had served on a previous Committee of Twelve[clarification needed]...
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  • James Robert Purvis (born 31 May 1954) is a former English cricketer. Purvis was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium-fast. He was born in...
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    assistance from the newly autonomous Serbia.: 339  African-American activist Robert Purvis refused to pay his Pennsylvania state taxes in protest against the state's...
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    South to free their slaves. Theodore Weld, an evangelical minister, and Robert Purvis, a free African American, joined Garrison in 1833 to form the Anti-Slavery...
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    Pennsylvania, in 1838. Founders included James Mott, Lucretia Mott, Robert Purvis, and John C. Bowers, Sr.: 154  In August 1850, William Still while working...
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  • at Ovingham and then Durham School, before being articled in 1822 to Robert Purvis, a solicitor in Newcastle upon Tyne. Surtees left for London in 1825...
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    Jamaican-born general, who commanded British forces in China and Hong Kong Robert Purvis (1810–1898), born free in Charleston, became active abolitionist in...
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  • real estate. Cassey was real estate business partners with Robert Purvis. Cassey and Purvis jointly owned a Bucks County farm, which was visited frequently...
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  • to Canada. During his travels he was harboured by abolitionist Robert Purvis. Purvis recalled that Washington was fascinated by a portrait of Joseph...
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