| Description | Anthony Bezenet was a Pennsylvania-based Quaker abolitionist, teacher and writer, who published a number of anti-slavery tracts and pamphlets which were widely distributed in Britain and influential in raising the profile of the anti-slavery campaign. Indeed, fellow abolitionist, Thomas Clarkson based his anti-slavery writing on some of Benezet’s work and Benezet distributed the work of Granville Sharp in America and vice-versa. Benezet’s writings marked a change in tactic amongst abolitionist writers as he had first-hand knowledge of how the slaves lived and were treated, and his work included eye-witness accounts from those involved in the slave trade. This pamphlet was first published in 1766. Reprinted and sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street, 1784.
See also SF/3/4/12/2/1. |