He remarked that as they, the society, when under outward sufferings, had often found a concern to lay them before the legislature, and thereby, in the Lord's time, had obtained relief; so he recommended this oppressed part of the creation to their notice, that they might, as, the way opened, represent their sufferings as individuals, if not as a religious society, to those in authority in this land.

This was the last opportunity that he had of interesting himself in behalf of this injured people for soon afterwards he was seized with the small-pox at the house of a friend in the city of York, where he died.
The next person belonging to the society of the Quakers, who laboured in behalf of the oppressed Africans, was Anthony Benezet.

He was born before, and he lived after, John Woolman; of course he was contemporary with him.

I place him after John Woolman, because he was not so much known as a labourer, till two or three years after the other had begin to move in the same cause.
Anthony Benezet was born at St.Quintin, in Picardy, of a respectable family, in the year 1713.

His father was one of the many Protestants who, in consequence of the persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantz, sought an asylum in foreign countries.