Benjamin Lay's All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates
1737 · Work
Printed by Benjamin Franklin, Lay's rambling, furious tract denounces slaveholding Quakers as apostates — one of the first books anywhere to demand the abolition of slavery.
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