Benjamin Lay: The Abolitionist Disowned for Confronting Slaveholders in His Own Church

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Benjamin Lay was an English-born abolitionist who spent his life fighting slavery and challenging Christians who owned enslaved people. Through public protests and his 1737 book, All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates, he condemned their hypocrisy and became one of the earliest and most outspoken abolitionists in colonial America, continuing his fight […]
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