The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist with a New Preface, Paperback - Marcus Rediker

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The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery

BENJAMIN LAY 1677 - 1759 A PIONEER QUAKER ANTISLAVERY ADVOCATE AND ACTIVIST

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