Why read The Fearless Benjamin Lay?

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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 theatre to shame slave masters, insisting that human…

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David Chanoff

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I was entertained and enlightened by the story of Benjamin Lay, an eccentric, dramatic, and outrageous abolitionist figure I had never heard of before. His guerrilla political theater was something new on the American scene.

Many thought that slavery and its associated atrocities had driven him over the edge of sanity. Whether it did or did not is an open question. In either case, he was one of the fathers of anti-slavery activism.

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