Benjamin Lay's blood-splattered Bible protest
1738 · Event
At the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Benjamin Lay pierces a Bible concealing a bladder of red juice, splattering slave-owning Quakers — the most theatrical antislavery protest of the colonial era.
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