Let this voice be heard [[electronic resource] ] : Anthony Benezet, father of Atlantic abolitionism / / Maurice Jackson

• Autore: Jackson Maurice <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (397 p.)
• Disciplina: 326/.8092; B
• Soggetto topico: Abolitionists - United States; Quakers - United States; Antislavery movements - United States - History - 18th century
• Soggetto non controllato: American History; American Studies; Autobiography; Biography
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Let this voice be heard
• ISBN: 1-283-89048-8; 0-8122-0234-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809979903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II