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Known as: 19th century author (Wrote one of the first important books on life as a slave, “Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery”)
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abolitionist
Light-skinned-ed Girl: Mixed Experience History Month 2013: William P. Powell, Civil War Surgeon
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Born in 1834, William P. Powell was the son of a free black man and a Native American mother in Bedford, MA. Powell, Sr. was a vocal abolitionist and helped house black seamen as well as fugitive slaves.
Light-skinned-ed Girl: Mixed Experience History Month 2013: Solomon Northup, Abolitionist & Author
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Solomon Northup was born free circa 1808 to a father who was a freeman of color and a mother who he would describe as a “quadroon”. In 1829, Northup married a mixed-race woman with whom he had three children.
Robert Purvis(Moroccan, German Jewish, English) [American]
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Known as: Abolitionist (Helped establish the Library Company of Colored People and the American Anti-Slavery Society; Involved in the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee which sheltered slaves on the Underground Railroad)
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