Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
November 19, 201932m 18s
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Show Notes
Nowadays, people often look back on U.S. Quakers as staunch abolitionists, but this wasn't always the case. In fact, when the Quakers first arrived on the continent they, like many other colonists, owned slaves. It was up to Benjamin Lay to bravely call out their hypocrisy, pointing to the discrepancy between their religious views and their earthly practices.
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