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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 Held in Bondage. He also founded the first public school for girls in North America and the Negro School at Philadelphia, which operated into the nineteenth century.
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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Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes. With some advice thereon, extracted from the Epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the yea...A short account of that part of Africa inhabited by the negroes.(Philadelphia: W. Dunlap, 1762)A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the British Dominions. Collected from various authors, etc.(Phi...Some Historical Account of Guinea ... With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave-trade ... Also a republication of the sentiments of several authors of note on this interesting subject...Benezet, Anthony, Some Historical Account of Guinea ... A new impression of the edition of 1788, etc(London: Frank Cass & Co., 1968)Crosby, David L., ed., The Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet, 1754-1783: An Annotated Critical Edition (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013). | Available from: Amazon...Kitson, Peter, et al, eds, Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period(London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999), 8 vols.Armistead, Wilson, Anthony Benezet. From the original memoir [by Roberts Vaux]: revised, with additions(London: A. W. Bennett, 1859)Barber, John Warner, and Elizabeth Gertrude Warner, Historical, Poetical and Pictorial American Scenes; principally moral and religious; being a selection of interesting incidents in American histo...Brookes, George S., Friend Anthony Benezet(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1937). A collection of Benezet's letters and minor writings, preceded by an account of his life.Carey, Brycchan, 'Anthony Benezet, Antislavery Rhetoric and the Age of Sensibility', Quaker Studies, 21:2 (2016): 7–24. Discusses Benezet in the context of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibil...This chapter examines the global impact of Anthony Benezet's antislavery ministry, including Benezet's influence on black abolitionists outside the Society of Friends. More than any other individual's work in the eighteenth century, that of Benezet served as a catalyst, throughout the Atlantic world, for the initial organized fight against ...
Anthony Benezet's advocacy for education among African Americans was a pivotal contribution to the abolitionist movement. By establishing one of the first schools for African American children in Philadelphia, he not only empowered individuals through knowledge but also challenged prevailing attitudes that deemed enslaved people unworthy of ...
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.
Overview. Anthony Benezet. (1713—1784) educational reformer and abolitionist. Quick Reference. (b. 31 January 1713; d. 13 May 1784), Quaker educator and abolitionist. Anthony Benezet was born to Huguenot parents in Saint-Quentin, Picardy, France. His father, Jean-Etienne Benezet, and his mother ...
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