The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners

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August 31, 2018 • 6 mins

Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But for speaking out, the Quakers disowned him.

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