| Series |
Early American history series : the American colonies, 1500-1830 ; volume 5
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016031162 |
| ISBN | 9789004315648 (hardback : alk. paper) |
