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Let this voice be heard : Anthony Benezet, father of Atlantic abolitionism /
"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. Bene...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
PENN,
©2009.
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| Colección: | EBL-Schweitzer
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 unatrributed quotations from Benezet's writings, a fitting tribute to the influence of his work."--Jacket |
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| Notas: | OldControl:muse9780812202342. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 374 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-350) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812202342 0812202341 0812221265 9780812221268 1283890488 9781283890489 |