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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 - 1784. Antoine Bénézet was the second of thirteen children born into a wealthy Huguenot family in St. Quentin in France. He was two when his family fled to Rotterdam to escape religious persecution in France. Soon they came to London, where they changed their French names to English ones.
He believed that empirical. against slavery and racial prejudice. Anthony Benezet thus served pin between the local and global antislavery movements, as well those who opposed slavery on humanitarian grounds versus those. theoretical or religious motivations. While Benezet did not, as Jackson. emulated then or since.
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.
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. In transforming Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based ...
