Letter, 1771 October 24, Philadelp[hi]a, to "Dear Friend Samuel Fothergill" / Anthony Benezet.

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Letter, 1771 October 24, Philadelp[hi]a, to "Dear Friend Samuel Fothergill" / Anthony Benezet.

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Holograph letter from Anthony Benezet to Samuel Fothergill in regards to pamphlets published on the slave trade.

1 item (2 pages) ; 24 cm.

Haverford College Library

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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...

Fothergill, Samuel, 1715-1772

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Samuel Fothergill (1715–1772), was a Quaker minister from Yorkshire, England. He was the sixth son of John Fothergill and his wife Margaret, well-to-do Quakers of considerable means at Carr End, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. He was born in November 1715. He was educated at Briggflats, near Sedbergh, and afterwards at a school at Sutton in Cheshire, kept by his uncle, Thomas Hough. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a Quaker shopkeeper at Stockport. As soon as his apprenticeship was over,...