# Benjamin Lay
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benjamin lay (January 26, 1682 – February 8, 1759) was an Anglo-American Quaker humanitarian and abolitionist. He is best known for his early and strident anti-slavery activities which would culminate in dramatic protests. He was also an author, farmer, an early vegetarian, and distinguished by his early concern for the ethical treatment of animals.Born in England, into a farming family, his early trade was as a shepherd and glove-maker.
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January 26, 2026
Birthday of Benjamin Lay; Birthday of Angela Davis, Publication of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity, by Justin Gregg; A Reading from Job 38.
The Cave and the Conscience
In 1738, a four-foot-tall Quaker named Benjamin Lay walked into the most powerful Quaker meeting in Pennsylvania, drew a sword, and drove it through a hollowed book filled with red juice that splattered across the slaveholders in the front rows. He was thrown into the street. He came back. He had b…
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Benjamin Lay
A look into the radical life of Benjamin Lay, an early 1730s Quaker who used dramatic public protests to fight for slave abolition.
Video: Becoming Benjamin Lay - Trailer
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Research and Resources: The Fearless Benjamin Lay by Marcus Rediker, and historical archives from the Abing…
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Fritz's favorite historian, Marcus Rediker, joins The State Between Us to unearth long-lost nautical stories of bold and brilliant people liberating themselves from American slavery in the 19th century, and the incredible revolutionary life and fight of the 18th century Quaker, Benjamin Lay. Blood-…
115. Benjamin Lay and The Persistent Power of Ineffective Protest
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316: The First Abolitionist
It's 1718, an English Quaker lands in Barbados. He is soon horrified to discover the treatment of people working the plantations there. Treatment the Marquis de Sade saw as the only cruelty that could rival that of the ancients. Listen to discover how Benjamin Lay became the first abolitionist, per…
316: The First Abolitionist
It's 1718, an English Quaker lands in Barbados. He is soon horrified to discover the treatment of people working the plantations there. Treatment the Marquis de Sade saw as the only cruelty that could rival that of the ancients. Listen to discover how Benjamin Lay became the first abolitionist, per…
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