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A Short Biography of Dr. Benjamin Rush

Author Name:

Dr. Benjamin Rush

Born As:

Benjamin Rush

Other Names:

Born:

24 Dec 1745

Died:

19 Apr 1813




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Politician                          
Selected Works:

Writings:

Letters of Benjamin Rush, volume 1: 1761 - 1792
Essays: Literary, Moral, and Philosophical - 1798 includes "A Plan of a Peace-Office for the United States"
The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His "Travels Through Life" Together with his Commonplace Book for 1789 - 1813
Medical Inquiries And Observations Upon The Diseases Of The Mind, 2006 reprint
The Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805 - 1813
Benjamin Rush, M.D: A Bibliographic Guide - 1996
An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, Upon Slave-keeping - 1773.                          
                          
Founder of the Philadelphia Bible Society.                          
Dr. Rush argued scientifically that Negroes were not by nature intellectually or morally inferior. Any apparent evidence to the contrary was only the perverted expression of slavery, which "is so foreign to the human mind, that the moral faculties, as well as those of the understanding are debased, and rendered torpid by it.