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    Anthony Benezet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784) was a French-born American abolitionist and teacher who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A prominent...
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    of Penn Center. It was erected in 1905 and named after Frenchman, Anthony Benezet, who stood for freedom in the mid- and late-1870's. The female teachers...
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    Philadelphia school for African Americans. Quaker teacher and abolitionist Anthony Benezet founded the school in 1770. Before opening a dedicated school building...
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    among Friends, best exemplified by the testimonies of Benjamin Lay, Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, and this resulted in an abolition movement among...
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    Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, William Southby, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet. Benezet was particularly influential, inspiring a later generation of notable...
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  • The name Benezet or the accented Bénézet may refer to: Saint Benezet (c. 1163 – 1184), medieval saint Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), Quaker educationalist...
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  • British America, dedicated to the abolition of slavery, was formed by Anthony Benezet in 1775. A year later, the Declaration of Independence announced that...
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    firmer hold. A new generation of Quakers, including John Woolman, Anthony Benezet, and David Cooper, protested against slavery, and demanded that Quaker...
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    History at Georgetown University. His book, Let This Voice be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism was published in 2009 by the University...
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    Barlow Benjamin Smith Barton Rev. Frederick Beazley Jeremy Belknap Anthony Benezet Jacob Bigelow William Biglow Edmund March Blunt Dr. Bolman John L....
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    darkness" Two other early prominent Friends to denounce slavery were Anthony Benezet and John Woolman. They asked the Quakers, "What thing in the world...
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  • treasury: or, Observations on slave-keeping, which was coauthored by Anthony Benezet another leading abolitionist. As a Christian and Quaker, Cooper made...
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  • trade. Three Quaker abolitionists, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet, devoted their lives to the abolitionist effort from the 1730s to the...
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    address referred to A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies by Anthony Benezet, founder of the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held...
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    1856. Jackson, Maurice (August 9, 2010). Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism. University of Pennsylvania Press...
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  • Statisticum Ecclesiae" 2015". press.vatican.va. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Anthony Dragani, From East to West "The beautiful witness of the Eastern Catholic...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    trade. Three Quaker abolitionists, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet, devoted their lives to the abolitionist effort from the 1730s to the...
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    He read everything he could on the subject, including the works of Anthony Benezet, a Quaker abolitionist, as well as first-hand accounts of the African...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    committed abolitionists. Sharp had a long and fruitful correspondence with Anthony Benezet, a Quaker abolitionist in Pennsylvania. However, the Quakers were a...
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  • scholar, French-language tutor to King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I. Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), American Quaker educator and abolitionist, from Saint-Quentin...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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  • v t e Quakers Individuals William Allen Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury Levi Coffin Anne...
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    of the Quakers Notable individuals Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Hannah Jenkins Barnard Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury...
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    v t e Quakers Individuals William Allen Susan B. Anthony Robert Barclay Anthony Benezet Kenneth E. Boulding Howard Brinton John Cadbury Levi Coffin Anne...
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