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1848 Colored Citizens Convention (Pennsylvania)
The Colored Citizens Convention of Pennsylvania was a Colored Citizen Convention held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from December 13th-14th, 1848. The Convention stemmed from the first, held in 1831. Free African-Americans in Pennsylvania met annually to discuss suffrage, civil rights, and their general well-being as free blacks in the North. In 1838, the free blacks in Pennsylvania were denied suffrage by the Reform Constitution of Pennsylvania, a rollback of a right which they had already held for decades. By 1848, the Conventions hadn't done much, as blacks would not return to the voting both until 1870. The 1848 Convention was overseen by Robert Purvis, President, Isaiah C. Weir, Vice President, and Rev. Stephen Smith, Treasurer.

Preliminary bibliography
Minutes of the State Convention of Colored Citizens of Pennsylvania, Convened at Harrisburg, December 13-14, 1848.

http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/17268

Philip S Foner and George E. Walker, eds. (1979) The Proceedings of the Black State Conventions, 1840-1865. Volume 1.

https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/241

Edward Raymond Turner, The Negro in Pennsylvania: Slavery, Servitude, Freedom, 1639-1861 (American Historical Association, 1911), 139

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ty0OAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA139&ots=3H5sEeq_Yf&dq=1848%20colored%20citizens%20convention%20pa&pg=PA139#v=onepage&q&f=false