The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784)

From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31564-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: Early American History Series

In 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne

Ruymbeke, Bertrand Van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Foreword: Anthony Benezet and the Dream of Freedom: Then and Now
Maurice Jackson
Introduction: Anthony Benezet: A Transatlantic Life and Legacy
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Part I -- Anthony Benezet’s French Heritage
Chapter 1: The Vaunageole and Cévenole Roots of Anthony Benezet
Bernard Douzil
Chapter 2: Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th Centuries
Didier Boisson
Chapter 3: Anthony Benezet the Huguenot: a Family Odyssey across the 18th-Century Refuge
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke

Part II -- Benezet and the Quaker Community in the British Atlantic World
Chapter 4: Anthony Benezet: the Emergence of a Weighty Friend
J. William Frost
Chapter 5: On War and Slavery: Benezet’s Peace Testimony and Abolition
David L. Crosby
Chapter 6: Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and Praise
Geoffrey Plank
Chapter 7: Nantucket Quakers and Negotiating the Politics of the Atlantic World
Richard C. Allen

Part III -- Benezet’s Writings from an Atlantic Perspective
Chapter 8: Anthony Benezet as Intermediary between the Transatlantic and Provincial: New Jersey’s Antislavery Campaign on the Eve of the American Revolution
Jonathan D. Sassi
Chapter 9: The Circulation of Early Quaker Antislavery Books: a Transatlantic Passage?
Louisiane Ferlier
Chapter 10: Anthony Benezet’s Antislavery Reputation in France: an Investigation
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
Chapter 11: ‘This Precious Book’: Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet’s Account of Guinea
Randy J. Sparks
Chapter 12: Benezet’s Ghost: Revisiting the Antislavery Culture of Benjamin Rush’s Philadelphia
Nina Reid-Maroney
Chapter 13: From Benezet to Black Founders: toward a New History of 18th-Century Atlantic Emancipation
Richard S. Newman

Bibliography
Index of Names and Places

Über Autor(innen)

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, PhD (1990), University Paris Diderot (Paris), is Professor of American Studies. She has published monographs and edited volumes on the early American Republic and antislavery in the Atlantic world. She is currently the editor of the series Slave Narratives (Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre).

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, PhD (1995), is professor of American history and civilization at the University of Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis) and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He has published extensively on early America and the Huguenot Diaspora.