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Today we’re going to take a look at the early eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner, Benjamin Lay. Let’s see what we can find out…


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Benjamin Lay painted by William Williams in 1790. Image from National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, via Art Resource, New York.

Cover image from The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker (2017).


Quoted texts:

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Oldfield, J. R. "Lay, Benjamin (1681–1759), opponent of slavery." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. September 23, 2004. Oxford University Press.

Memoirs of the lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford: two of the earliest public advocates for the emancipation of the enslaved Africans by Roberts Vaux; Philadelphia : Published by Solomon W. Conrad, No. 187, High-street (1815)

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Lay, Benjamin, et al. All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage: apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near: it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America. [Philadelphia: Printed for the author, i.e. 1738, 1738].

Marcus Rediker, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (2017).


Also consulted, were:

Nathaniel Smith Kogan, "Aberrations in the Body and in the Body Politic: The Eighteenth-Century Life of Benjamin Lay, Disabled Abolitionist", Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36 No. 3 (2016): Summer 2016.

Marcus Rediker, "The “Quaker Comet” Was the Greatest Abolitionist You’ve Never Heard Of", Smithsonian Magazine Online, September 2017 (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...)

Mielke, A. (1997). “What’s here to do?” An Inquiry Concerning Sarah and Benjamin Lay, Abolitionists. Quaker History, 86(1), 22–44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41947343

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.

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