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The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life In The Fearless Benjamin
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Pages: 319
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Authors: Gary B. Nash
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A d
Let This Voice Be Heard
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Authors: Maurice Jackson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-24 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in
Holy War and Human Bondage
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Authors: Robert C. Davis
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