Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 2

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🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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As Benjamin Lay continued his one-man protest against the hypocrisy of slavery in the Quaker community, he inspired some folks and frustrated others (primarily the elders of his community) with his increasingly over-the-top tactics. After being kicked out of one community after another, he eventually became a hermit of sorts -- though, even then, his story wasn't done.

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2:21.6	Pagram. And this is part two of our series on the heroic, innovative, and I would say extra
2:31.7	ordinary abolitionist Benjamin Lay. Yeah, when we last left our hero, he was starting off in his
2:40.6	kind of radical protest career, doing things like beaten people with tobacco pipes around the
2:48.0	ankles, I imagine, getting thrown out into the mud and then just lay in there. People had to
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