Benjamin Rush

In her consideration of the silence of despair, Brox highlights the views of Benjamin Rush, an American founding father and native of Philadelphia, who believed that the silent and separate incarceration of criminals would lead to their spiritual redemption.

We are not a chosen People, that I know of," Adams wrote Benjamin Rush in 1812.

Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence (and supposed abolitionist!); both Penn and Rush owned slaves.

This historical contribution puts him in the league of some of the most renowned personalities in the 18th century known for the moral therapy movement in the field of psychiatry such as William Tuke of the UK, Philippe Pinel of France and Benjamin Rush of the USA.

Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 - April 19, 1813) was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator as well as the founder of Dickinson College.

The second individual is revolutionary-era physician Benjamin Rush (1746-1813), whose work in categorizing and proposing treatments for mental illness is legendary.

He misinterprets Jefferson's education proposals as a "state-driven plan" and quotes James Madison and Benjamin Rush to similar effect.

1775 - The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organised by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

Benjamin Rush, a physician and signatory of the Declaration of Independence, noted, "Without virtue there can be no liberty and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments." Liberty also is the cornerstone of good medical care.

They discuss his French heritage, including his family's move to Philadelphia; Benezet and the Quaker community in the British Atlantic world, including how he became a respected figure in it, how his antislavery ideas are based on the peace testimony of the Quaker religion, comparisons to abolitionist John Woolman, and the changing Atlantic world of the time; and Benezet's writings key to the New Jersey campaign to ban slave imports and ease private manumissions before the American Revolution, the transatlantic circulation of the first Quaker antislavery pamphlets, the impact of his views about Africa, the antislavery culture of Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia, and how Benezet complemented the contributions of the Black Founders.

Benjamin Rush, "had no fixed principles and accommodated their conduct to their interest, to events, and to their company" (65-66).

Benjamin Rush, and, very briefly, a soft spoken militia officer named Washington.