title: But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis (Excelsior Editions)
author:  Margaret Hope Bacon 
description: this book does well to open a new line of approach for Quaker scholars of social justice movements and scholars of antislavery alike.  Quaker Studies<br /><br />Bacons biography adds to our limited knowledge of nineteenth-century northern black leaders who devoted their lives to pressuring white Americans to live up to their stated ideals. One hopes that this study will spur historians to investigate the lives of other black activists who have been either marginalized or ignored in the historiography of the period.  The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<br /><br />Margaret Hope Bacons wonderful biography of Robert Purvis is most welcome  With this book, Purvis is no longer one of abolitions unsung heroes.  The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography<br /><br />Bacons concise yet thorough treatment of her subject restores Purvis to his rightful place as one of the most interesting and complex figures of the era  Highly recommended.  CHOICE<br /><br />In this long-overdue biography of Robert Purvis, Margaret Hope Bacon has given us back one of the towering figures in the history of civil rights. Bacon has given us not only the political manwhose name should be as familiar to us as that of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubmanbut also a compelling, full-round portrait of a deeply complex and appealing human being, whose natural optimism was sorely tested by the early loss of several children to disease, and by white Americas repeated betrayal of his abiding faith in the nations promise of freedom and equality.  Fergus M. Bordewich, author of Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America<br /><br />Margaret Bacon has worked tirelessly in her effort to rescue Robert Purvis from obscurity and present him to the modern reader as a man who was both of his time and ahead of it in his demands for an equality that knew no lines of race or sex.  Julie Winch, author of A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten<br /><br />Robert Purvis has long deserved a good biography. Bacons penetrating study illuminates both Purviss many accomplishments in a complicated and hostile world and his often prickly personality.  Winthrop D. Jordan, University of Mississippi<br /><br /> Bacon is effective in setting the context for Purviss activitiesboth in terms of public and family events, and in demonstrating the complex nature of black abolitionism. She has helped to reclaim Purviss rightful place in American history.  Roy E. Finkenbine, Director, Black Abolitionist Archives, University of Detroit Mercy
zlib_text: IVORY’S STORY
  
  Eugen Bacon
  
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  NewCon Press
  
  England
  
    
  
  First published in the UK, December 2020 by
  
  NewCon Press
  
  41 Wheatsheaf Road,
  
  Alconbury Weston,
  
  Cambs, PE28 4LF
  
  NCP251 (limited edition hardback)
  
  NCP252 (paperback)
  
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  Ivory’s Story copyright © 2020 by Eugen Bacon
  
  Cover Art copyright © 2020 by Vincent Sammy
  
  All rights reserved, including the right to produce this book, or portions
  thereof, in any form.
  
  ISBN:
  
  978-1-912950-76-8 (hardback)
  
  978-1-912950-77-5 (paperback)
  
  Cover art by Vincent Sammy
  
  Cover layout by Ian Whates
  
  Typesetting and editorial meddling by Ian Whates
  
  Book layout by Ian Whates
  
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  **Dedication:**
  
  For the stories we yearn to tell, the diversity of our voices.
  
  I am black.
  
  > I am ‘other’.
  
  > > I am many.
  
  Betwixt. A sum of cultures.
  
  There are multiple points of intersection in blackness – I dedicate this story
  to my duality as an African Australian. Where does one culture begin, where
  does it end?
  
  