Letter, 1773 December 28, Phil[adelphi]a to "Respected Friend Moses Brown" / Anthony Benezet.

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Letter, 1773 December 28, Phil[adelphi]a to "Respected Friend Moses Brown" / Anthony Benezet.

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Copy of a Holograph letter from Anthony Benezet to Moses Brown. Manumissions are briefly mentioned as is concern about the destruction of tea in Boston. Benezet also discusses Virginia Yearly Meeting and their petition to the King regarding the slave trade.

1 item (3 pages) ; 33 cm.

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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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...

Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in Virginia

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Black Water Monthly Meeting [Also called Surry, Burley and Gravelly Run Monthly Meeting before 1800] established: 1672, 1692, 1702 or 1737 depending upon the record, continued after 1752 as Surry or Black Water. Surviving records began in 1752. Divided: 1800 into Blackwater Monthly Meeting and (The Upper Gravelly Run, Burley) Monthly meeting. Discontinued: 1807. Previous to this time many references are made to "The monthly Meeting held at Black Water in Surry County" and later referred to as bo...