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The son of French Huguenots who had fled to Rotterdam and then London, Anthony Benezet became a Quaker before his family emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1731. After settling in Germantown Benezet became one of North America's most outspoken abolitionists and founded the Commonwealth's first anti-slavery society. His influential tract, Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes was published by Christopher Saur, the most important German printer in colonial Pennsylvania.
