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Black Abolitionist Archive
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Speaker or Author: editor
Newspaper:Colored American (1837 - 1842)
Date Published: 1840-05-09
Notes: The writer tells his readers about an upcoming week of speeches to be delivered by various branches of the American Anti-Slavery Society to celebrate their anniversary.
Speaker or Author: Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
Newspaper:Presscopy -- New York Public Library -- Schomburg Collection
Title: Speeches and Writings of Robert Purvis, Published by the Request of the Afro-American League (pp. 6-11)
Date Published: 1864
Notes: The speaker rejoiced in the recent emancipation of the slaves but stressed that the battle for improving the condition of the formerly enslaved and ending the prevelent prejudice would offer the Abolitionists continued work.