Tag: Benjamin Lay

The newsworthy, cause-driven, high-profile protests of today are really nothing new. Marcus Rediker, in Smithsonian Magazine, demonstrated their area longevity in his profile…

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Washington Post: Remembering Benjamin Lay, Quaker Who Wrote One of First Treatises Against Slavery

September 9, 2018

During the 1700s, when many Pennsylvania Quakers owned slaves, Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, writes Mike Rosenwald…

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Abington Quaker Radical a Forgotten Anti-Slavery Agitator, Hero

August 18, 2017

He chose to live away from the rest of society, live opposed to much of society and act very much anti-social. But Benjamin Lay…

Tag: Benjamin Lay

Local Cause-Related Protests Are Nothing New, as Evidenced by an Abington Quaker from 1700s

Washington Post: Remembering Benjamin Lay, Quaker Who Wrote One of First Treatises Against Slavery

Abington Quaker Radical a Forgotten Anti-Slavery Agitator, Hero