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1To Benjamin Franklin from Anthony Benezet, 27 April 1772 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : American Philosophical Society The writer of this letter has hitherto appeared only incidentally. Anthony Benezet (1713–84), philanthropist and author, was born in France and educated in England, and became a Quaker as a boy; soon afterward he moved to Philadelphia, where he was first a merchant and then a teacher. From the 1750’s until his death he labored to impress upon the world in...