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Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A prominent member of the abolitionist movement in North America, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully ...
Anthony Benezet, oder Antoine Bénézet (* 31. Januar 1713 in Saint-Quentin, Frankreich; † 3. Mai 1784 in Philadelphia, Vereinigte Staaten) war ein amerikanischer Lehrer, Abolitionist, Sozialreformer und Einwanderer, der von französischen Hugenotten abstammte.
30. Apr. 2024 · Anthony Benezet (born January 31, 1713, Saint-Quentin, France—died May 3, 1784, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) was an eminent teacher, abolitionist, and social reformer in 18th-century America. Escaping Huguenot persecution in France, the Benezet family fled first to Holland and then to London.
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Jean R. Soderlund praises the book Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father Abolitionism, by Maurice Jackson. She highlights Benezet's role in linking local and global abolitionism, his use of empirical and historical evidence, and his influence on other activists.
Anthony Benezet is recognized as the founder of the antislavery movement in America in the mid-1700s. Benezet believed the British ban on slavery should have been extended to the colonies, and worked to convince his Quaker brethren that slave-owning was not consistent with Christian doctrine.
In this careful edition of Anthony Benezet’s published works against slavery, David L. Crosby argues that the Quaker schoolteacher and activist was “the pivotal figure in the eighteenth-century campaign to abolish slavery and the slave trade”(1). Historians Maurice Jackson and Jonathan D.Sassi similarly credit Benezet for moving ...
This chapter examines the global impact of Anthony Benezet's antislavery ministry, including Benezet's influence on black abolitionists outside the Society of Friends. More than any other individual's work in the eighteenth century, that of Benezet served as a catalyst, throughout the Atlantic world, for the initial organized fight against ...
