[PURVIS, ROBERT]. Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened by Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania. 18 pages. 8vo, disbound. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838 E600/900 FIRST EDITION of this "appeal" by a meeting of Pennsylvania

[PURVIS, ROBERT]. Appeal of Forty Thousand Citizens Threatened by Disenfranchisement, to the People of Pennsylvania. 18 pages. 8vo, disbound. Philadelphia: Merrihew and Gunn, 1838 E600/900 FIRST EDITION of this "appeal" by a meeting of Pennsylvania freemen led by Robert Purvis, to undo results of the reform convention which had effectively disenfran-chised them. Purvis was the son-in-law of James Forten, possibly one of the most influential freemen in Philadelphia and a noted civil rights activist. "His well-phrased, well-argued plea against racial limitation was, considering the provocation, moderate in tone it fell on deaf ears."-LCP Negro History Catalogue, 104. Not in Blockson Collection; Schomburg Collection Sc rare 324. 74-P.