Benjamin Lay
1682–1759 · Person
Quaker dwarf, hermit and moral revolutionary — one of the first radical abolitionists. His guerrilla theatre against slave-owning Friends in Pennsylvania made him a pariah in his lifetime and a prophet in hindsight.
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