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"I hope thou wilt kindly excuse the freedom used on this
occasion by an ancient man, whose mind, for more than forty
years past, has been much separated from the common intercourse
of the world, and long painfully exercised in the consideration
of the miseries under which so large a part of mankind, equally
with us the objects of redeeming love, are suffering the most
unjust and grievous oppression, and who sincerely desires thy
temporal and eternal felicity, and that of thy royal consort.
"ANTHONY BENEZET."
Anthony Benezet, besides the care he bestowed upon forwarding the cause
of the oppressed Africans in different parts of the world, found time to
promote the comforts, and improve the condition of those, in the state
in which he lived. Apprehending that much advantage would arise both to
them and the public from instructing them in common learning, he
zealously promoted the establishment of a school for that purpose. Much
of the two last years of his life he devoted to a personal attendance on
this school, being earnestly desirous that they who came to it might be
better qualified for the enjoyment of that freedom to which great
numbers of them had been then restored.
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