The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay
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Narrated by:
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Cornell Womack
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By:
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Marcus Rediker
About this listen
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man - a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything produced by slave labor, championed animal rights, and embraced vegetarianism. He acted on his ideals to create a new, practical, revolutionary way of life.
©2017 Marcus Rediker (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.