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The Atlantic world of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) : from French reformation to North American Quaker antislavery activism /

In 'The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism', Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly study fully examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne (Editor ), Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand, 1962- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2016.
Colección:Early American History Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.