The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917

book I found almost all I wanted." Clarkson easily won the first

prize. Although Benezet himself did not live to see it, this volume converted to the cause of the oppressed race a man who as an author and reformer became one of the greatest champions it ever had.[41]

Benezet continued to write on the slave trade, collecting all accessible data from year to year and publishing ...