The Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker
Posted by Emma Lapsansky on Nov 12, 2019 in | Comments Off on The Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker The Fearless Benjamin Lay The Quaker Dwarf Who Became The First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker Beacon Press, 224 pp., cloth $26.95 Who cares about Benjamin Lay (1682–1759), a 4-foot-tall, malformed, 18th-century member of a minority religious network known as the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)? Until recently, not very many people. But in seven gracefully crafted chapters...read more