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The Quaker abolitionist who was disowned for condemning slave owners
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Length:
6 minutes
Released:
Jul 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But the Quakers disowned Lay for speaking out.
Released:
Jul 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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