The Fearless Benjamin Lay: Quaker Dwarf Revolutionary Abolitionist - Rediker

The Fearless Benjamin Lay: Quaker Dwarf Revolutionary Abolitionist - Rediker\n\nThe Fearless Benjamin Lay: Quaker Dwarf Revolutionary Abolitionist - Rediker\n\nClick images to enlarge\n\nDescription\n\nThe Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist\n\nby Marcus Rediker\n\nPub. Verso, 2017. \n\nFirst edition\n\n\u200BHardback in dustjacket.\n\nvi, 212 pages, illustrated\n\nThe Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man\u2015a 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 bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything producr