Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 374 pages, [6] pages of plates)
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illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0812221265
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0812241290
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0812202341
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1283890488
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9780812221268
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9780812241297
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9780812202342
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9781283890489
Content:
"In this wide-ranging intellectual biography, Maurice Jackson demonstrates how Benezet mediated Enlightenment political and social thought, narratives of African life written by slave traders themselves, and the ideas and experiences of ordinary people to create a new antislavery critique. Benezet's use of travel narratives challenged proslavery arguments about an undifferentiated, "primitive" African society. Benezet's empirical evidence, laid on the intellectual scaffolding provided by the writings of Hutcheson, Wallace, and Montesquieu, had a profound influence, from the high-culture writings of the Marquis de Condorcet to the opinions of ordinary citizens. When the great antislavery spokesmen Jacques-Pierre Brissot in France and William Wilberforce in England rose to demand abolition of the slave trade, they read into the record of the French National Assembly and the British Parliament extensive unatrributed quotations from Benezet's writings, a fitting tribute to the influence of his work."--Jacket
Content:
A life of conscience -- The early Quaker antislavery movement -- An antislavery intellect develops -- Visions of Africa -- Building an antislavery consensus in North America -- Transatlantic beginnings and the British antislavery movement -- Benezet and the antislavery movement in France -- African voices -- Epilogue: Anthony Benezet's dream
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-350) and index
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Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jackson, Maurice, 1950- Let this voice be heard Philadelphia : PENN, ©2009
Language:
English
