Vigilant Association of Philadelphia
Founder Robert Purvis in the 1840s
Co-founder James Forten
The Vigilant Association of Philadelphia was an abolitionist organisation founded in August 1837 in Philadelphia to "create a fund to aid colored persons in distress". The initial impetus came from Robert Purvis, who had served on a previous Committee of Twelve in 1834, and his father-in-law James Forten.[1][2]
Its executive was the Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia and the first president was a black dentist, James McCrummell. Other abolitionsts who helped included John Greenleaf Whittier, who helped form the committee and promoted the association in his newspaper Pennsylvania Freeman.[1][2]
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- Boromé, Joseph (1968), "The Vigilant Committee of Philadelphia", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Historical Society of Pennsylvania), Vol. 92 (3): 320–351
- Tomek, Beverly C. (2015), "Vigilance Committees", The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia (Rutgers University)
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