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Описание: I read "The Fearless Benjamin Lay" by Marcus Rediker. My photo of the cover is a recommendation and review for this fascinating book. It's a painting of Benjamin Lay in Abington, Pennsylvania. Click on the "Read More" box on the publisher's webpage for a selection of the positive expert reviews. The life and work of Benjamin Lay (1682-1759) — with his wife Sarah who died in 1735 — seems an example of how something once viewed as normal and fixed, the institution of slavery, slowly became opposed and rejected as shocking and shaming. Benjamin Lay's views arose from his bedrock religious principles and personal experience. Originally from Copford near Colchester, Essex in England, he and Sarah lived 1718-1720, in Barbados. It had a Quaker community, and was at the time - in Rediker's description - "the world's leading slave society". They later sailed to Philadelphia - city of brotherly love and with a large settlement of Quakers. and a substantial population of African slaves. Rediker shows Lay as an angry and early opponent of slavery at a time when it was still conventional thinking. His public dissent - "a man of strife and contention" - as some of his fellow Quakers described him - challenged especially those who'd grown rich and powerful. Partly through owning and trading slaves. Benjamin Lay died in 1759 in Abington, Pennsylvania. The previous year, elderly and very ill, he'd heard the news that the Philadelphia Quakers' Yearly Meeting had begun a process to discipline and eventually disown Quakers who traded slaves. A big step towards abolition. Want to know more? Please watch a video made in Abington when in 2018 the local Quaker community unveiled a grave marker commemorating Sarah and Benjamin Lay. The ceremony brought the story up-to-date. It includes a short passionate speech from Avis Wanda McClinton "as the descendant of the people that Benjamin fought so hard for. Also a reading in the Quaker meeting house of pages from Benjamin Lay's book: "All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates". Find out still more? Listen online to Professor Rediker's talk in 2017 at SOAS London (the School of Oriental and African Studies). It includes his sharing his own grandfather's advice on how to engage readers and listeners by telling history as a story they can identify with. _______________________________________ § Webpage about Benjamin Lay on Quakers in the World website. § Photosphere of Abington Friends Cemetery by John Marquette. Google Street View - April 2016. § Link to the webpage of the AMM Abington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): Information on Benjamin Lay. Includes an audio of a radio interview with Loretta Fox with Solomon Jones on PhillyPraise 107.9 FM, 1 October 2018. Ms Fox is Administrator at Abington Friends Meeting. § BBC webpage news item 10 February 2018 reported that in November 2017 the North London (UK) Quakers recognised the wrong they had done in their treatment of Benjamin Lay, accepting the group had "not walked the path we would later understand to be the just one". § Link to webpage at the Smithsonian Museum Washington DC.

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