Letter, 1774 May 9, Philadelphia, to "Respected Friend Moses Brown" / Anthony Benezet.

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Letter, 1774 May 9, Philadelphia, to "Respected Friend Moses Brown" / Anthony Benezet.

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Copy of a Holograph letter from Anthony Benezet to Moses Brown. Discussing Eastern States' petitions and bills to the King and Parliament in opposition to slavery and the slave trade. Benezet discusses his friend Samuel Nottingham and his wife's slaves, Robert Pleasants and Granville Sharp. Also includes an account of a letter concerning the lives and future of slaves from Nathaniel Gilbert of Antigua.

1 item (4 pages) ; 34 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...

Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813

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English philanthropist and writer. From the description of Autograph letter in third person : Garden Court Temple, to Mr. Phillips, 1804 June 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270662097 English abolitionist, reformer, and philanthropist. From the description of Copies of letters received, 1763-73. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58776522 British philanthropist and abolitionist. From the description of Granville Sharp correspondenc...

Nottingham, Samuel.

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Gilbert, Nathaniel, of Antigua.

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Brown, Moses, 1738-1836

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Quaker, abolitionist, founder of Brown University. From the description of Letter : Providence, R.I., to an unidentified correspondent, 1774 Dec. 1. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 29540202 ...

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...