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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Redicker, Marcus Publisher: Beacon Press
Date Written: 04/09/2018
Year Published: 2018
Pages: 224pp Price: 21.60 ISBN: 0807060984
Resource Type: Book
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Prophet Against Slavery
CHAPTER ONE
Early Life
CHAPTER TWO
"A Man of Strife & Contention"
CHAPTER THREE
Philadelphia's "Men of Renown"
CHAPTER FOUR
How Slave Keepers Became Apostates
CHAPTER FIVE
Books and a New Life
CHAPTER SIX
Death, Memory, Impact
CONCLUSION
The Giant Oak
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
A Note on Dates
Notes
Index
Illustration Sources and Credits
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