EPISODE · Jul 8, 2019 · 6 MIN
The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
from Retropod · host The Washington Post
Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But the Quakers disowned Lay for speaking out.
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Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But the Quakers disowned Lay for speaking out.
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