Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

Dates:
Birth 1713-04-11
Death 1784-05-03
Gender:
Male
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Anthony Benezet, born Antoine Bénézet (January 31, 1713 – May 3, 1784), was a French-American abolitionist and educator who was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the early American abolitionists, Benezet founded one of the world's first anti-slavery societies, the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage (after his death it was revived as the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery); the first public school for girls in North America; and the Negro School at Philadelphia, which operated into the nineteenth century. He was a vegetarian and advocated for the kind treatment of animals, integrating this in his teachings.

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Subjects:

  • Slavery
  • Slavery
  • Abolitionists
  • Abolitionists
  • Education
  • Education
  • African Americans
  • Antislavery movements
  • Teachers
  • Society of Friends
  • Fugitive slaves
  • Manuscripts, American
  • Public schools
  • Quakers
  • Quakers
  • Quakers
  • Religious education of children
  • Slaves
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Abolitionists
  • Education
  • Quakers
  • Quakers

Occupations:

  • Teachers
  • Quaker abolitionists
  • Quakers

Places:

  • London, ENG, GB
  • Holland, 00, NL
  • Philadelphia, PA, US

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