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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2016.
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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.