The Atlantic world of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): from French reformation to north American Quaker antislavery activism
Introduction: Anthony Benezet: a transatlantic life and legacy / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part I. Anthony Benezet's French heritage -- The Vaunageole and Cevenole roots of Anthony Benezet / Bernard Douzil -- Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th ce...
| Published in: | Early American history series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2017]
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Early American history series (volume 5)
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| Series/Journal: | Early American history series
volume 5 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Benezet, Anthony 1713-1784
/ Abolitionists
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| RelBib Classification: | KDH Christian sects |
| Further subjects: | B
Philadelphia (Pa.) Biography
B Antislavery movements (France) History 18th century B Abolitionists (United States) Biography B Conference program 2013 (Paris) B Antislavery movements (United States) History 18th century B Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784) B Benezet, Anthony 1713-1784 B Abolitionists (France) Biography B Huguenots (United States) Biography B Quakers (United States) Biography |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Anthony Benezet: a transatlantic life and legacy / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part I. Anthony Benezet's French heritage -- The Vaunageole and Cevenole roots of Anthony Benezet / Bernard Douzil -- Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th centuries / Didier Boisson -- Anthony Benezet the Huguenot: a family odyssey across the 18th-century refuge / Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part II. Benezet and the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world -- Anthony Benezet: the emergence of a weighty friend / J. William Frost -- On war and slavery: Benezet's peace testimony and abolition / David L. Crosby -- Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and praise / Geoffrey Plank -- Nantucket Quakers and negotiating the politics of the Atlantic world / Richard C. Allen -- Part III. Benezet's writings from an Atlantic perspective -- Anthony Benezet as intermediary between the transatlantic and provincial: New Jersey's antislavery campaign on the eve of the American Revolution / Jonathan D. Sassi -- The circulation of early Quaker antislavery books: a transatlantic passage? / Louisiane Ferlier -- Anthony Benezet's antislavery reputation in France: an investigation / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- "This precious book": Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet's account of Guinea / Randy J. Sparks -- Benezet's ghost: revisiting the antislavery culture of Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia / Nina Reid-Maroney -- From Benezet to black founders: toward a new history of 18th-century Atlantic emancipation / Richard S. Newman |
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| Item Description: | Vorwort: "... international academic conference entitled 'The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet', which took place on May 30 and May 31, 2013, in Paris, France, to commemorate the tercentenary of Benezet's birth." |
| ISBN: | 9004315640 |