Search results
In The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly study fully examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure.Contributions cover his Huguenot heritage and later influence on the French ...
1 de mar. de 2010 · Extract. Maurice Jackson's biography of the “Frenchborn, Philadelphia-based Quaker anti-slavery leader Anthony Benezet” (1713–1784) offers an overdue corrective to a scholarly tradition that has both revered and dismissed Benezet as an “American Saint” (pp. ix, xv).
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker antislavery community.
1 de mar. de 2010 · Extract. Maurice Jackson's biography of the “Frenchborn, Philadelphia-based Quaker anti-slavery leader Anthony Benezet” (1713–1784) offers an overdue corrective to a scholarly tradition that has both revered and dismissed Benezet as an “American Saint” (pp. ix, xv).
muse.jhu.edu
27 de jun. de 2022 · Anthony Benezet was born 31 January 1713 in St. Quentin in northern France. He was a Quaker teacher, writer and abolitionist. His family were Huguenots - French protestants - who had been suffering increasing persecution since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In 1715, when Benezet was two years old, they emigrated to London ...
Anthony Benezet, born in 1713, moved to the American colonies at the age of two years old. Working as a school teacher, Benezet was a member of the Philadelphia Society of Friends and used his position to advocate for abolition. Anthony Benezet established schools for girls, the disabled, and freed slave children.
