Marcus Rediker Fearless benjamin lay

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• The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first white people ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world.
• He performed public guerrilla theatre to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity.
• He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything produced by slave labour, championed animal rights, and embraced vegetarianism.
• He acted on his ideals to create a new, practical, revolutionary way of life.