Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (Q491318)
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Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis
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Abolitionist
Sarah Louisa Forten
Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis
Free before 13th Amendment. Wrote antislavery poetry under a pen name, and with her mother and sisters Forten was a founding member of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society (PFASS) in 1833.