George William Benson (1808–1879) was an American Quaker abolitionist from Connecticut who assisted Prudence Crandall in her education efforts.
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He was one of the founders of the utopian 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]: 19
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
edit- ^ a b c d e Clark, Christopher M. (2003). The Communitarian Moment: The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 1-55849-416-2.
Further reading
edit- 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.