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Historians have traditionally paid relatively little attention to the French migrations to America. Although in the early modern period France was a demographic giant, had a deep – yet not enough recognized – maritime tradition, had many colonies in the Americas from the Gulf of Saint-Lawrence to the Amazon, and suffered from a tumultuous political history comparatively few of its people migrated to British North America and the United States. France has therefore and to some extent understandably enjoyed minimal visibility in the American ethnic landscape. There is, however, a long tradition of French migrations to America, beginning with the Huguenots at the end of the seventeenth century. At times these influxes were important in terms of number and influence, indeed in 1690 and in 1790 French was spoken in the streets of Charleston and of Philadelphia.

Cavalier e Puritan : Vantenato ugonotto nel prisma della storia americana. Negli Stati Uniti, essere discendente di un rifugiato ugonotto è un inegabile prestigio a causa di un'immagine fortemente idealizzata che fa da un protestante francese un pioniere, un puritano e un nobile. Una percezione, allo stesso tempo reale e artificiale, dovuta ai cronisti americani dell'ottocento, alla ricerca di un'integrazione dell'esperienza ugonotta nella memoria collettiva statiunitense allora lacerata dall'oposizione fra Nord e Sud. Ora, in un modo singolare, l'ugonotto collega perfettamente queste due tradizioni antinomiche, quella del Cavalier e quella del Puritan : egli appare corne un specie di nobile puritano, mescolando calvinismo, ardore al lavoro e saper-vivere. Cosciente di questa alleanza unica, le numerose Huguenot Societies americane, dagli anni 1880, perpetuano questa immagine, faciendo la prova di una formidabile vitalità genealogica.

Introduction: Anthony Benezet: a transatlantic life and legacy / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol and Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part I. Anthony Benezet's French heritage -- The Vaunageole and Cevenole roots of Anthony Benezet / Bernard Douzil -- Being Huguenot in the Vermandois during the 17th and 18th centuries / Didier Boisson -- Anthony Benezet the Huguenot: a family odyssey across the 18th-century refuge / Bertrand Van Ruymbeke -- Part II. Benezet and the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world -- Anthony Benezet: the emergence of a weighty friend / J. William Frost -- On war and slavery: Benezet's peace testimony and abolition / David L. Crosby -- Anthony Benezet, John Woolman, and praise / Geoffrey Plank -- Nantucket Quakers and negotiating the politics of the Atlantic world / Richard C. Allen -- Part III. Benezet's writings from an Atlantic perspective -- Anthony Benezet as intermediary between the transatlantic and provincial: New Jersey's antislavery campaign on the eve of the American Revolution / Jonathan D. Sassi -- The circulation of early Quaker antislavery books: a transatlantic passage? / Louisiane Ferlier -- Anthony Benezet's antislavery reputation in France: an investigation / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- "This precious book": Africa and Africans in Anthony Benezet's account of Guinea / Randy J. Sparks -- Benezet's ghost: revisiting the antislavery culture of Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia / Nina Reid-Maroney -- From Benezet to black founders: toward a new history of 18th-century Atlantic emancipation / Richard S. Newman