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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 ...
30 de abr. de 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.
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.
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. 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.
Although Benezet remains little known by the general public, scholars of colonial Quakers and antislavery have often noted his many accomplishments: creator of the international antislavery movement, indefatigable pamphleteer.
1 de mar. de 2010 · 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).
