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Author:   Marie-Jeanne Rossignol ,  Bertrand Van Ruymbeke
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   5
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.565kg
ISBN:  

9789004315648

ISBN 10:   9004315640
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   20 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Cevenole 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

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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 Universites 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.

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