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 cotemporary 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 begun 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.

After a short stay in Holland, he settled, with his wife and children, in London, in 1715.
Anthony Benezet, having received from his father a liberal education, served an apprenticeship in an eminent mercantile house in London.