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Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist
Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century...
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Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony Benezet. While Benezet was buried in an unmarked grave, his fingerprints are all over the extinction of the Atlantic slave trade and the gathering strength of America's own burgeoning abolitionist movement. He was a figure of global importance, "a saint," Garry Wills called him, a great bearer to the rest of the world of the American ideals (no matter how compromised) of equality and liberty.
Anthony Benezet lived, by chance, at the nexus of radical Christianity and revolutionary democracy, and he fused the power of those two streams of morality in a way that changed lives and challenged political institutions so compellingly that the world became a different place because of him. But for all the magnitude of Benezet's impact, he is largely unknown outside scholars of the period. He does not exist in any meaningful way in the widely read histories and biographies that define and amplify America's historical consciousness. In Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist, preeminent biographer David Chanoff tells Benezet's story--who he was, what he did, how he did it, and why it was that William Penn's "Holy Experiment" of Pennsylvania provided the matrix for the historic transformation the abolitionist educator brought about. Indeed, Chanoff carves out a place for this forgotten American hero as a pioneering figure among those who launched American ideals onto the world stage.Author: David Chanoff
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 09/15/2025
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780820374239
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/06/2025
About the Author
DAVID CHANOFF has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, New Republic, and the Wall Street Journal, among others. His twenty-four books include collaborations with former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William Crowe Jr., and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. In addition to ghostwriting, he has also written a number of histories, including a history of Black medicine and health care that was awarded the Phillis Wheatley Prize for History from the Sons & Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage. Chanoff lives in Boston.
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