After this period the Quakers were also concerned with the improvement of the colored people's condition in other settlements.[3] [Footnote 1: Dr.DuBois gives a good account of these efforts in his _Suppression of the African Slave Trade_.] [Footnote 2: Benezet was a French Protestant.

Persecuted on account of their religion, his parents moved from France to England and later to Philadelphia.

He became a teacher in that city in 1742.

Thirteen years later he was teaching a school established for the education of the daughters of the most distinguished families in Philadelphia.

He was then using his own spelling-book, primer, and grammar, some of the first text-books published in America.