Raspberry Street Schools: How Anthony Benezet Educated Blacks For 20 years Before Philadelphia Established A Public School For Blacks

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Raspberry Street Schools: How Anthony Benezet Educated Blacks For 20 years Before Philadelphia Established A Public School For Blacks

Anthony Benezet was possibly the most instrumental person in convincing Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to ban slavery. Born in 1713, he came from a French Huguenot family, who moved to England around 1715 and then to Philadelphia in 1731. (Jackson, 2009). Having experienced persecution himself, he empathized with the treatment of slaves and free African Americans […]

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