Letter, 1781 March 17, Philadelphia, to "Dear Friend" [Robert Pleasants] / Anthony Benezet.

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Letter, 1781 March 17, Philadelphia, to "Dear Friend" [Robert Pleasants] / Anthony Benezet.

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Typed copy of a Holograph letter from Anthony Benezet to Robert Pleasants. Discussing education for the "poor blacks".

1 item (2 pages) ; 28 cm.

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Pleasants, Robert, 1723-1801

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Robert Pleasants was a Quaker merchant, planter, and enslaver-turned-abolitionist who spent most of his life in Henrico County, Virginia. He is perhaps best known for successfully suing for the freedom of over 400 enslaved people as the plaintiff in Pleasants v. Pleasants, the largest manumission case in U.S. history. Pleasants was born about 1723 to John Pleasants III and Margaret Jordan Pleasants, Quaker members of Virginia's planter aristocracy of enslavers, at their estate o...

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

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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 t...