Benjamin Lay

Source: The Conversation
2/2/2022

How 18th C. Quakers Led a Sugar Boycott Against Slavery

by Julie L. Holcomb

"In the 1780s, British and American Quakers launched an extensive and unprecedented propaganda campaign against slavery and slave-labor products."

Source: NYT
8-12-17

In a new book Marcus Rediker draws attention to an 18th century ultraradical hunchback dwarf

You never hard of him. You should. His name was Benjamin Lay and he pushed Quakers to adopt abolitionism.