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Sarah Forten Purvis, an early abolitionist, has recently died. She was a worker in this enterprise from its beginning. She was a contributor to the columns of the Liberator in the first year of its existence. Over the signature of “Ada,” poems and prose articles from her pen testified to her sympathy with the gigantic moral revolution inaugurated by its editor. She was a member of the Phila delphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, and with her sisters, Miss Margaretta Forten and Mrs. Robert Purvis, was ever true to the cause of freedom and active in its promotion. It is with a deep sense of humiliation that Our HeErap notes the fact that women are found so lost to all right-mindedness as to write to the press such accusations as have fallen under our eyes recently from the pens of women, that Miss Frances Willard, in tak ing her stand for the Prohibition party, “is stealing the livery of heaven to serve the devil in,” and that “Susan B. Anthony was bought by the Republican party.” Shame, to any woman who dares to defame these noble women thus! Paralyzed be the corrupt pen that dares trace such words!
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Lafayette our Herald
Lafayette, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 13, 1884
Page 3
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