LEADER 04870nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910779145203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89048-8 010 $a0-8122-0234-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202342 035 $a(CKB)2550000000104570 035 $a(OCoLC)794702140 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738147 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11435249 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738147 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10788306 035 $a(PQKB)11150309 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3216 035 $a(DE-B1597)449092 035 $a(OCoLC)1013948898 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980565 035 $a(OCoLC)1041995275 035 $a(OCoLC)1046613459 035 $a(OCoLC)1047005996 035 $a(OCoLC)1049626501 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881933 035 $a(OCoLC)979577827 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202342 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576115 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420298 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441674 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104570 100 $a20080922d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLet this voice be heard$b[electronic resource] $eAnthony Benezet, father of Atlantic abolitionism /$fMaurice Jackson 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (397 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2126-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. A Life of Conscience -- $t2. The Early Quaker Antislavery Movement -- $t3. An Antislavery Intellect Develops -- $t4. Visions of Africa -- $t5. Building an Antislavery Consensus in North America -- $t6. Transatlantic Beginnings and the British Antislavery Movement -- $t7. Benezet and the Antislavery Movement in France -- $t8. African Voices -- $tEpilogue: Anthony Benezet's Dream -- $tChronology of Atlantic Abolitionism -- $tNotes -- $tPrimary Sources -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAnthony 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 antislavery community.In transforming Quaker antislavery sentiment into a broad-based transatlantic movement, Benezet translated ideas from diverse sources-Enlightenment philosophy, African travel narratives, Quakerism, practical life, and the Bible-into concrete action. He founded the African Free School in Philadelphia, and such future abolitionist leaders as Absalom Jones and James Forten studied at Benezet's school and spread his ideas to broad social groups. At the same time, Benezet's correspondents, including Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Abbé Raynal, Granville Sharp, and John Wesley, gave his ideas an audience in the highest intellectual and political circles.In this wide-ranging intellectual biography, Maurice Jackson demonstrates how Benezet mediated Enlightenment political and social thought, narratives of African life written by slave traders themselves, and the ideas and experiences of ordinary people to create a new antislavery critique. Benezet's use of travel narratives challenged proslavery arguments about an undifferentiated, "primitive" African society. Benezet's empirical evidence, laid on the intellectual scaffolding provided by the writings of Hutcheson, Wallace, and Montesquieu, had a profound influence, from the high-culture writings of the Marquis de Condorcet to the opinions of ordinary citizens. When the great antislavery spokesmen Jacques-Pierre Brissot in France and William Wilberforce in England rose to demand abolition of the slave trade, they read into the record of the French National Assembly and the British Parliament extensive unattributed "ations from Benezet's writings, a fitting tribute to the influence of his work. 606 $aAbolitionists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aQuakers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 615 0$aAbolitionists 615 0$aQuakers 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 676 $a326/.8092 676 $aB 700 $aJackson$b Maurice$f1950-$01519687 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779145203321 996 $aLet this voice be heard$93757947 997 $aUNINA