Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- 1 The Vaunageole and Cévenole Roots of Anthony Benezet / Bernard Douzil -- 2 Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th Centuries / Didier Boisson -- 3 Anthony Benezet the Huguenot: A Family Odyssey across the 18th-Century Refuge / Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- 4 Anthony Benezet: The Emergence of a Weighty Friend / J. William Frost -- 5 On War and Slavery: Benezet’s Peace Testimony and Abolition / David L. Crosby -- 6 Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and Praise / Geoffrey Plank -- 7 Nantucket Quakers and Negotiating the Politics of the Atlantic World / Richard C. Allen -- 8 Anthony Benezet as Intermediary between the Transatlantic and Provincial: New Jersey’s Antislavery Campaign on the Eve of the American Revolution / Jonathan D. Sassi -- 9 The Circulation of Early Quaker Antislavery Books: A Transatlantic Passage? / Louisiane Ferlier -- 10 Anthony Benezet’s Antislavery Reputation in France: An Investigation / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- 11 “This Precious Book”: Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet’s Account of Guinea / Randy J. Sparks -- 12 Benezet’s Ghost: Revisiting the Antislavery Culture of Benjamin Rush’s Philadelphia / Nina Reid-Maroney -- 13 From Benezet to Black Founders: Toward a New History of 18th-Century Atlantic Emancipation / Richard S. Newman -- Bibliography -- Index of Names and Places.

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In The Atlantic World of Anthony Benezet (1713-1784): From French Reformation to North American Quaker Antislavery Activism , Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke offer the first scholarly study fully examining Anthony Benezet, inspirator of 18th-century antislavery activism, as an Atlantic figure. Contributions cover his Huguenot heritage and later influence on the French antislavery movement (which had never been explored as thoroughly before) as well as his Quaker faith and connections with the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world (in the North American colonies as well as in Britain). Beyond the Quaker community, his preoccupation with Africa is highlighted, and further research is also encouraged reconciling Benezet studies with those on black rebels and founders in the Atlantic world.

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