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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 apr 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.
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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.
Benezet, Anthony - Enciclopedia - Treccani. Filantropo americano di origine francese (San Quintino 1713 - Filadelfia 1784). In America dal 1731, è noto soprattutto per la sua azione a favore degli schiavi neri. Scrisse sulla questione schiavista e sulla politica di sterminio degli Indiani opuscoli e pamphlets.
Professor Maurice Jackson's study of Quaker Anthony Benezet' s impact on the development of transatlantic abolitionism is well researched and insightful. The author clearly demonstrates his thesis that the Philadelphia schoolmaster
1 mar 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).
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.
