What Was Purvis Reading?

November 15, 2025 1:00 — 2:30 PM

Byberry Friends Meeting, 3001 Byberry Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154

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Discover the reading habits of noted Black abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Robert Purvis, based on the historic Byberry Library Company book collection and circulation records. See the very books Purvis read in the 1850s and 1860s when he was a Library Company member (and while he and his wife Harriet were secretly helping freedom-seekers at their nearby Byberry home)! Hear from a panel of experts and view the actual books that Purvis checked out from the Byberry Library Company.

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