1. The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784) : From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism
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ROSSIGNOL, Marie-Jeanne, Van Ruymbeke, Bertrand, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA UMR 8225), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Transferts critiques anglophones (TransCrit), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8), UMR LARCA 8225 (Paris Diderot), EA 1569 Transferts critiques anglophones (Paris 8), Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Marie-Jeannr ROSSIGNOL, Jaap Jacobs, and L. H. Roper
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Religion ,Atlantic history ,British colonies ,Quakers ,Antislavery movement ,North America ,[SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History - Abstract
International audience; Edited by Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Université Paris 8 – Vincennes St Denis and Institut Universitaire de FranceIn The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly study fully examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure. Contributions cover his Huguenot heritage and later influence on the French antislavery movement (which had never been explored as thoroughly before) as well as his Quaker faith and connections with the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world (in the North American colonies as well as in Britain). Beyond the Quaker community, his preoccupation with Africa is highlighted, and further research is also encouraged reconciling Benezet studies with those on black rebels and founders in the Atlantic world.
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- 2016