He was the author of Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants: An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects which was influential in Britain and the United States during the height of the abolitionism movement.
He taught slave children and help set up the Negro School at Philadelphia.
In 1775, Benezet founded the world's first abolitionist society. Benjamin Franklin becomes its president in 1787.
Reference
Anthony Benezet: biography and bibliography (http://www.brycchancarey.com/abolition/benezet.htm) from Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition
External Link
Some Historical Account of Guinea (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/11489) full text from Project Gutenberg
AnthonyBenezet was born in St. Quentin, northern France, on 31 January 1713.
In 1715, when Benezet was two years old, they emigrated to London, where he received an education suitable for the son of a properous family of merchants.
Several years later, Benezet's works were instrumental in persuading Thomas Clarkson to embark on his abolitionist career, and Benezet's Some Historical Account of Guinea was reprinted several times during the height of the abolition campaign.
Benezet was born in St. Quentin in Picardy in France in 1713.
Benezet set forth in the almanacs of the time accounts of the atrocities of those engaged in slavery and the slave trade and published and circulated numerous pamphlets ingeniously exposing their iniquities.
Benezet, therefore, wrote the Countess a brilliant letter pathetically depicting the misery she was unconsciously causing by thus encouraging slavery and the slave trade.
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