{"product_id":"anthony-benezet-quaker-abolitionist-anti-racist-hardcover","title":"Anthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Chanoff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a modest Quaker teacher who never ventured more than a few miles from his home in Philadelphia: Anthony Benezet. While Benezet was buried in an unmarked grave, his fingerprints are all over the extinction of the Atlantic slave trade and the gathering strength of America's own burgeoning abolitionist movement. He was a figure of global importance, \"a saint,\" Garry Wills called him, a great bearer to the rest of the world of the American ideals (no matter how compromised) of equality and liberty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnthony Benezet lived, by chance, at the nexus of radical Christianity and revolutionary democracy, and he fused the power of those two streams of morality in a way that changed lives and challenged political institutions so compellingly that the world became a different place because of him. But for all the magnitude of Benezet's impact, he is largely unknown outside scholars of the period. He does not exist in any meaningful way in the widely read histories and biographies that define and amplify America's historical consciousness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAnthony Benezet: Quaker, Abolitionist, Anti-Racist, \u003c\/i\u003epreeminent biographer David Chanoff tells Benezet's story--who he was, what he did, how he did it, and why it was that William Penn's \"Holy Experiment\" of Pennsylvania provided the matrix for the historic transformation the abolitionist educator brought about. Indeed, Chanoff carves out a place for this forgotten American hero as a pioneering figure among those who launched American ideals onto the world stage.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDAVID CHANOFF has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003eamong others. His twenty-four books include collaborations with former surgeon general Joycelyn Elders, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral William Crowe Jr., and Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. In addition to ghostwriting, he has also written a number of histories, including a history of Black medicine and health care that was awarded the Phillis Wheatley Prize for History from the Sons \u0026amp; Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage. Chanoff lives in Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.7 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44291544809574,"sku":"9780820374239","price":44.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/NwMQ57KR6C9780820374239.webp?v=1766869052","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/anthony-benezet-quaker-abolitionist-anti-racist-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}