Let This Voice Be Heard : : Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism / / Maurice Jackson.
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 a...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 10 illus. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. A Life of Conscience
- 2. The Early Quaker Antislavery Movement
- 3. An Antislavery Intellect Develops
- 4. Visions of Africa
- 5. Building an Antislavery Consensus in North America
- 6. Transatlantic Beginnings and the British Antislavery Movement
- 7. Benezet and the Antislavery Movement in France
- 8. African Voices
- Epilogue: Anthony Benezet's Dream
- Chronology of Atlantic Abolitionism
- Notes
- Primary Sources
- Index
- Acknowledgments