George Benson (Quaker)
George William Benson (1808–1879) was an American
in her education efforts.He was one of the founders of the
Northampton Association for Education and Industry,[1]: 15 and was the brother-in-law of William Lloyd Garrison.[1]: 18–19 Sojourner Truth, who worked for him for a time as a housekeeper, was introduced to Garrisonian abolitionism in his home, which Crandall called an "asylum for the oppressed."[1]
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He worked for The Liberator and the American Anti-Slavery Society.[1]: 19
His father George Benson (Sr.) (1752–1836) had also been active in opposing slavery in the United States, at one time president of the New England Anti-Slavery Society.[1]: 18
References
- ^ ISBN 1-55849-416-2.
Further reading
- Buckley, Kerry W.; Clark, Christopher M. (2004). Letters from an American Utopia: The Stetson Family and the Northampton Association, 1843-1847. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-431-6.
- Garrison, Wendell Phillips; Garrison, Francis Jackson (1885). William Lloyd Garrison, 1805–1879. Vol. 2. New York: The Century Co.
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