Let This Voice Be Heard : : Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism /

Let This Voice Be Heard : : Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism / / Maurice Jackson.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
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Jackson, Maurice,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2009
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 10 illus.
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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

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