A Teacher and a Friend
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In his 2007 book, Head and Heart, Garry Wills called Anthony Benezet “the one unquestionably authentic American saint.” More than 200 years earlier, French revolutionary Jacques Pierre Brissot wrote, “Who is equal to Benezet? Who was more virtuous than Benezet? Who was more useful to society, to mankind?” Benezet, an 18th-century Philadelphia Quaker, was instrumental in ending the transatlantic slave trade. It was Benezet, too, who precipitated America’s long national discussion of Black and whi
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