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He was born before, and he lived after, John Woolman; of course he was contemporary with him. I place him after John Woolman, because he was not so much known as a labourer, till two or three years after the other had begin to move in the same cause. Anthony Benezet was born at St. Quintin, in Picardy, of a respectable family, in the year 1713.
For the Meeting for Sufferings, as representing it, recommended to the quarterly meetings to distribute a work, written by Anthony Benezet, in America, called A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies, in a short Representation of the calamitous State of the enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions. This book was accordingly forwarded to them for this purpose.
Anthony Benezet having received from his father a liberal education, served an apprenticeship in an eminent mercantile house in London. In 1731, however, he removed with his family to Philadelphia, where he joined in profession with the Quakers. His three brothers then engaged in trade, and made considerable pecuniary acquisitions in it.
In 1784 the Quakers of Philadelphia employed Sarah Dwight to teach the colored girls sewing. Anthony Benezet provided in his will that in the school to be established by his benefaction the girls should be taught needlework. The teachers who took upon themselves the improvement of the free people of color of New York City regarded industrial training as one of their important tasks.
How Avignon passed to the Popes The court of Clement VI. John XXII. Benedict XII. Their tombs Petrarch and Laura The Palace of the Popes The Salle Brulee Cathedral Porch S. Agricole Church of S. Pierre The museum View from the Rocher des doms The Rhone The bridge Story of S. Benezet Dancing on bridges Villeneuve Tomb of Innocent VI. The Castle at Villeneuve Defences Tete-du-pont of the bridge.
A mistress was found without much difficulty in Justine Bénézet, a valuable Friend, who had had for sixteen years the superintendence of the Orphan Asylum, and whose health had in some degree given way under the too onerous charge. In reference to the accomplishment of this undertaking, J.Y. writes: 12 mo. 14.
Anthony Benezet, besides the care he bestowed upon forwarding the cause of the oppressed Africans in different parts of the world, found time to promote the comforts, and improve the condition of those, in the state in which he lived.
The assembly attempted at various times to check slave importations by levying prohibitive duties, which were invariably disallowed by the English crown. On the other hand, in spite of the endeavors of Sandiford, Lay, Woolman and Benezet, all of them Pennsylvanians, it took no steps toward relaxing racial control until the end of the colonial period.
But a summons like that of Garrison's bugle-blast could scarcely be unheeded by one who, from birth and education, held fast the traditions of that earlier abolitionism which, under the lead of Benezet and Woolman, had effaced from the Society of Friends every vestige of slave-holding.
Among the narratives, that of a M. Benezet was typical, and is curious. In recent years, about 1872-80, the Rev. Mr. Stainton Moses, a clergyman and scholar of the best moral reputation, believed himself to be the centre of extraordinary, and practically incredible, occurrences, a belief shared by observers among his friends. M. Benezet's narrative is full of precisely parallel details.
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