New audiobook release: The autobiography of Benjamin Rush

Our Founding Fathers left us many wonderful works with which to learn more about their lives and beliefs, many of which are in the form of a multitude of letters written to other people or specific-topic-based works. Perhaps the best well-known topic-based work of the Founders is the Federalist Papers, produced by three Founders over the course of some months.

Benjamin Rush did something different though, producing a short autobiography about his own life. I do believe there are others who had autobiographies as well but I think they were exceedingly rare among the Founding generation.

I suspect very few people have read Rush's autobiography in recent times. With the more convenient method of listening to an audio book, that consumption level will increase and that is a good thing for us all. The more we know about our Founding Fathers and the more (hopefully) we attempt to be like them the better off we are as Americans.

New audiobook release: Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet, by Roberts Vaux

I am so happy to announce that today Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet is now available in audio. When it comes to the Abolitionist Founding Fathers, this is the guy who ties it all together.

In order to restore American history from all of the damage that progressives have done to it, making it easier for people to be reminded of or learn of the important people is essential.

Many of the prominent Founding Fathers were abolitionist. Many more opposed slavery. Who did they have correspondence with? Anthony Benezet.

Patrick Henry knew of Anthony Benezet and his work.

Anthony Benezet is credited with converting Benjamin Franklin into an abolitionist.

Anthony Benezet also worked directly with Benjamin Rush in the fight against slavery.

Benezet's works can also be found in the John Adams library.

South Carolinian Henry Laurens, during the time he penned his abolitionist pamphlet, was sending letters to Anthony Benezet.

This is the guy. He was everywhere. And he didn't just get abolitionism started in the U.S. before the U.S. was the U.S., the major abolitionists in Britain also were heavily influenced by Benezet's works. Granville Sharp, John Wesley, and Thomas Clarkson were all influenced by Benezet - later Wilberforce as well.

The only point of sadness I have at this moment is that I believe most people (in particular those who adore American history and specifically the Founding) will not bother to either read this, listen to it, or take time to seek out other books written about Benezet and discover his profound impact upon early American abolitionism. Its a gut feeling I hope I am incorrect about, but I cannot escape it.

The 1619 Project is still out there and this is the one thing, the only thing, that can stand in its way. The Abolitionist Founding Fathers is the cure to The 1619 Project.