He gave a long message detailing the evils of slavery, and at the climax of his ministry, pierced his Bible with his sword. ], Robert Jordan, J— B—s, S— P—l—Men of Renown in Philadelphia—and M.M.
Abington Friends Meeting is holding the first in an annual series of Benjamin Lay Lectures—on current topics of social justice—on a date to be announced, at 520 Meetinghouse Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 19046, when it is safe to re-open the meeting house, now closed to slow down the spread of… and Nicholas Austin in Abington05: Comparing Turks and Christians in Slave-Keeping02: William Burling's Address to the Elders of the Church19: Concerning the Lying Spirit in Ahab’s Prophets520 Meetinghouse Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 1904623: Them That Came to This Country as Servants to Plead for Slave-Keeping Is Intolerable15: The Best and Only Way for Friends or Others That Now Have Slaves to Discharge Themselves of Them38: George Fox’s Account of the Greatest Deceivers—Apostate Ministers: Fallen Angels41: Stephen Crisp: Works. While in Abington, Philadelphia, Lay lived in a cave-like dwelling surrounded by a library of two hundred books, and it was in this unconventional abode where he penned a fiery and controversial book against bondage, which Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. Benjamin Lay (1681-1759) was a British Friend from Colchester who became passionately interested in slavery after a journey to Barbados. William Bennit: Writings. John Milton: Church Government. Woolman was exceedingly careful that he never publically or spitefully criticizes other Friends, although he did not shy away from making witnesses that were difficult for Friends to understand, such as his decision to wear undyed cloth. This display proved too much for Quakers to bear and he was formally, and publically, disowned from the Society not long thereafter.view all documents that mention Benjamin LayBenjamin Lay (1681-1759) was a British Friend from Colchester who became passionately interested in slavery after a journey to Barbados. Public Domain During his life and after his death, many people, Rediker says, thought of Lay as deranged. Included in the online collections of Benjamin Lay is his 1737For further information see Lay's entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as well as Drake, Thomas E. Quakers and Slavery in America. More details will be posted here and at the websites of 16: Partial Proceedings of Some Slave-Keepers to Keep Me from My Proper Inheritance: Anthony Morris, Israel Pemberton, S—- P—n [Samuel Pemberton? William Edmundson: Journal50: The Spirit of Martyrs Revived by Ellis Hooks10: A Few Precedents in Friends of Great Repute in Slave-Keeping Is Much More Mischievous Than in Many Publicans and Harlots31: Concerning My Keeping My Elder Brother’s Sheep51: Francis Rous’s Works: Concerning God’s Own Teaching of His Own Dear Children—Him, Him, Him, Himself!07: Many Worthy Men Have Borne Testimony against This Foul Sin: Ralph Sandiford and Others27: Keeping Concubines, Harlots, and Slaves: Practiced by Jews and Gentiles20: Some Discourse with Robert Jordan concerning Slave-Keeping, and Something concerning George Keith and New Jerusalem18: Benjamin Lay Being Kept Out of Meeting at Philadelphia by the Constable, Anthony Morris, Israel Pemberton, S— P—n [Samuel Pemberton? The thesis of the book is straightforward: Benjamin Lay brought together numerous strands of radicalism in his effort to condemn as the devil’s own device the institution of slavery.

See all books The Fearless Benjamin Lay The Quaker Dwarf Who Became The First Revolutionary Abolitionist Table of Contents. Francis Howgill: Works, Advice to Ministers04: Great Burdens Slave-Keeping Preachers Bring upon Their Brethren and Friends After working as a farmhand and shepherd, then an apprentice glove-maker, Lay ran away to London and became a sailor at age 21; he later returned to England and married Sarah Smith by 1718. George Fox’s Doctrinal, concerning the Kingdom or Government of Heaven, What It Is, and Where It Is to be Possessed of and Enjoyed in This World. In 1718, Lay moved to Barbados as a merchant, but soon his abolitionist principles, fueled by his Quaker radicalism, made him hugely unpopular with those fellow residents who broadly profited from slavery and human trafficki The front page of Lay’s 1737 tract omits the name of his publisher, Benjamin Franklin. He carried forth his witness to his concern chiefly in the American colonies until he was Chief among Lay's offenses was the publication of his lengthy book Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore CollegeHaverford College Quaker & Special CollectionsLay's tactics are in stark contrast to those undertaken by other Quaker anti-slavery advocates of the 18th century, most prominently John Woolman. ], R— E—n03: Preach against Fighting, yet Receive the Plunder49: William Smith’s Balm from Gilead, concerning True Discerning and JudgmentThat day will begin at 10am with a Quaker 33: The Light, Airy Spirit Some Preachers and Others Have Discovered When I Have Been Speaking against Slave-Keeping44: Thomas à Kempis: The Christian Pattern, or the Imitation of Christ25: Miserable Condition of Slaves When Old and Past Their Labor42: August Eleutherius [Sebastian Franck]: The Forbidden Fruit14: On Their Way Slave-Keepers Very Ready to Smite and Revile Any That Reprove Them for Their Sin08: Korah and Company—250 Men of Renown—Withstood Moses; Much More Slave-Keepers Withstand the Truth36: Concerning Marriage, or Marrying in the LordThe 2020 Benjamin Lay Lecture is coming, God-willing, in autumn.48: Robert Barclay’s Apology. His Great Mystery. The most famous incident occurred in Burlington in 1738 when Lay entered Meeting for Worship clothed as a soldier with a sword.
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man--a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. 43-47.Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Minute, Lay is disownedLay showed a propensity for theatrical demonstrations illustrating the evils of slavery and Friends' complicity with it. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950, pp. Abington Friends Meeting in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

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