To Be Silent... Would be Criminal: The Antislavery Influence and Writings of Anthony Benezet

by Irv A. Brendlinger

Born in 1713 of French Huguenot stock, Philadelphia Quaker Anthony Benezet was probably the most significant force in advancing the cause against slavery and the African slave trade in the eighteenth century. However, while abolitionists like Granville Sharp, William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and John Wesley are familiar, the name "Benezet" is hardly recognized. And yet, it was his work that reinforced Sharp's legal battles, his tracts that singularly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810857650
• ISBN13: 9780810857650
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"