Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
Ridiculous History
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🗓️ 19 November 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Nowadays, people often look back on U.S. Quakers as staunch abolitionists, but this wasn't always the case. In fact, when the Quakers first arrived on the continent they, like many other colonists, owned slaves. It was up to Benjamin Lay to bravely call out their hypocrisy, pointing to the discrepancy between their religious views and their earthly practices.
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| 2:05.2 | listening, grew up in the United States, then you are probably familiar with the iconic face on the |
| 2:11.0 | Quaker Oats box. For a long time, as a kid, I did not know that the Quakers or the religious |
| 2:18.4 | society of friends were in fact religion. Yeah, I always thought he was just like a pilgrim. |
| 2:23.1 | Yeah, I thought he was just like old-timey, vaguely colonial. I'm picturing him in my head, and I |
| 2:28.1 | think I'm maybe even picturing him wrong and inserting a pilgrim hat and sort of a buckle onto |
| 2:34.0 | this figure. But I do not believe that is what he looks like. I think he just has white hair |
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