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Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist

By (author) David Chanoff

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Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britainâ€™s great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony Benezet. While Benezet was buried in an unmarked grave, his fingerprints are all over the extinction of the Atlantic slave trade and the gathering strength of Americaâ€™s own burgeoning abolitionist movement. He was a figure of global importance, â€œa saint,â€ Garry Wills called him, a great bearer to the rest of the world of the American ideals (no matter how compromised) of equality and liberty. Anthony Benezet lived, by chance, at the nexus of radical Christianity and revolutionary democracy, and he fused the power of those two streams of morality in a way that changed lives and challenged political institutions so compellingly that the world became a different place because of him. But for all the magnitude of Benezetâ€™s impact, he is largely unknown outside scholars of the period. He does not exist in any meaningful way in the widely read histories and biographies that define and amplify Americaâ€™s historical consciousness. In Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist, preeminent biographer David Chanoff tells Benezetâ€™s storyâ€”who he was, what he did, how he did it, and why it was that William Pennâ€™s â€œHoly Experimentâ€ of Pennsylvania provided the matrix for the historic transformation the abolitionist educator brought about. Indeed, Chanoff carves out a place for this forgotten American hero as a pioneering figure among those who launched American ideals onto the world stage.

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