Purvis Reward Advertisement for freedom seeker John Murphy

ID: 2510 ~ Source: The Baltimore Sun ~ Date: September 7, 1840
This file appears in: Site of the Purvis Slave Pen
Purvis Reward Advertisement for freedom seeker John Murphy
This file appears in: Site of the Purvis Slave Pen

By Richard F. Messick
James Franklin Purvis arrived in Baltimore around 1831 to act as an agent for his uncle, Isaac Franklin, whose firm was the largest purveyor of human beings in the country, Franklin & Armfield of Alexandria, VA. Purvis followed the same business…