Month: March 2023

Basic Information Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis, born Sarah Louisa Forten, was an African American poet and activist born around 1814, though there is dispute over the precise date of her birth (Purvis, Sarah Forten (C. 1811–C. 1898), 2022). While typically her work was oriented around the issue of abolition, she pioneered the concept of intersectionality…