The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) : From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism.

Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction. Anthony Benezet: A Transatlantic Life and Legacy -- Part 1 Anthony Benezet's French Heritage -- Chapter 1 The Vaunageole and Cévenole Roots of Anthony Benezet -- Chapter 2 Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th Centuries -- Chapter 3 Anthony Benezet the Huguenot: A Family Odyssey across the 18th-Century Refuge -- Part 2 Benezet and the Quaker Community in the British Atlantic World -- Chapter 4 Anthony Benezet: The Emergence of a Weighty Friend -- Chapter 5 On War and Slavery: Benezet's Peace Testimony and Abolition -- Chapter 6 Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and Praise -- Chapter 7 Nantucket Quakers and Negotiating the Politics of the Atlantic World -- Part 3 Benezet's Writings from an Atlantic Perspective -- Chapter 8 Anthony Benezet as Intermediary between the Transatlantic and Provincial: New Jersey's Antislavery Campaign on the Eve of the American Revolution -- Chapter 9 The Circulation of Early Quaker Antislavery Books: A Transatlantic Passage? -- Chapter 10 Anthony Benezet's Antislavery Reputation in France: An Investigation -- Chapter 11 "This Precious Book": Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet's Account of Guinea -- Chapter 12 Benezet's Ghost: Revisiting the Antislavery Culture of Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia -- Chapter 13 From Benezet to Black Founders: Toward a New History of 18th-Century Atlantic Emancipation -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places.

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 volume examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure.

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