The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807035920 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marcus Rediker (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh and Senior Research Fellow at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. . He produced the award-winning documentary film Ghosts of Amistad (Tony Buba, director), about the popul
He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything produced by slave labor, championed animal rights, and embraced vegetarianism. He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeThe 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 acted on his ideals to create a new, practical, revolutionary way of life.. He performed public guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity
“Rediker provides a valuable addition to abolitionist historiographyA concise, solid biography of ‘the first revolutionary abolitionist,’ a diminutive man who was decades ahead of his time.”—Kirkus Reviews“Rediker adroitly describes nuances of the Quaker faith’s evolutionLay’s farsightedness and extensive advocacy deserves to be remembered.”—Publishers Weekly“Admirers of Marcus Rediker’s splendid The Slave Ship will be delighted by this historian’s new boo
A Revolutionary hero for our times Malvin “The Fearless Benjamin Lay” by Marcus Rediker brilliantly succeeds in resuscitating an obscure but vitally important Revolutionary hero for our time. Professor Rediker is a distinguished historian whose groundbreaking work has proven that revolution in the Americas was driven by . Amazing Forgotten Man in Quaker History! William Lay was a most unusual person in history, a self educated man who became an avid reader, only four foot seven inches with a hunchback, a man revolted by the bad treatment of slaves by their owners in Barbardos, a vegetarian and animal rights proponent. I was curious about him because