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    Benjamin Lay (January 26, 1682 – February 8, 1759) was an English-born writer, farmer and activist. Born in Copford, Essex into a Quaker family, he initially...
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  • The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist is a biography of Benjamin Lay written by Marcus Rediker and...
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  • Sarah Smith Lay, wife of abolitionist Benjamin Lay, and Quaker, was born in Rochester, Kent County, England. She was known as a well respected woman in...
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    optometrist and politician Benjamin Lay (1682–1759), Anglo-American abolitionist, activist, and humanitarian Benjamin Leiner (Benny Leonard; the "Ghetto...
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    practice arose among Friends, best exemplified by the testimonies of Benjamin Lay, Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, and this resulted in an abolition...
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    worked on the production of a one-man show based on Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay with playwright Naomi Wallace as well as a documentary on La Amistad...
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  • Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), English Quaker and abolitionist Bob Lay (1944–2022), Australian sprinter Caren Lay (born 1972), German politician Carol Lay...
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    height. Şehzade Cihangir Mahmud I Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine Benjamin Lay Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Margaret of Bavaria (1442–1479) Pepin the...
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  • Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel is a graphic novel illustrated by David Lester and the editors of the book are Marcus Rediker and...
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    vegetarian Quakers in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, including Benjamin Lay and John Woolman. His reasons for vegetarianism were based on health...
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    Quakers, including William Southeby, John Hepburn, Ralph Sandiford, and Benjamin Lay. In the 1740s and 1750s, anti-slavery sentiment took a firmer hold. A...
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    traditionally called abolitionists. John Quincy Adams Jeremy Bentham Benjamin Lay James McCune Smith John Brown William Wells Brown Oren Burbank Cheney...
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  • Osgood 2002: The Hughleys - Norman Stage: 2023: The Return of Benjamin Lay - Benjamin Lay 2009: Mabou Mines Dollhouse - Torvald Helmer 2005 Best Actor...
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    abolitionist Benjamin Lay published All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage: Apostates, which was printed by his friend, Benjamin Franklin. The...
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    Other Quakers who ministered against slavery were not so moderate. Benjamin Lay would minister passionately and personally and once sprayed fake blood...
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    abolitionists, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet, devoted their lives to the abolitionist effort from the 1730s to the 1760s, with Lay founding...
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    their coreligionists of the evils of slavery were read out of meeting. Benjamin Lay was read out of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for this. During the...
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  • abolitionists, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet, devoted their lives to the abolitionist effort from the 1730s to the 1760s, with Lay founding...
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    Andrew Lawrence - actor Joey Lawrence – actor Matthew Lawrence – actor Benjamin Lay – philanthropist and abolitionist Jim Liberman – racing driver Stephen...
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  • trial on August 4. 1737 – Benjamin Lay writes All Slave-Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates. Published by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia...
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  • innovator Lydia Lancaster (1683–1761), English born travelling minister Benjamin Lay (1681–1760), Quaker abolitionist John C. Lettsome (1744–1815), English...
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    established for the Abington Friends School. Elisha Tyson, abolitionist Benjamin Lay, Quaker activist "History of Abington Monthly Meeting". Abington Monthly...
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    emphasis on the Inner Light: Dearly beloved Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule or form to walk by, but that all, with the measure of...
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    the eighteenth century even as individual abolitionist Quakers like Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet questioned the practice. In 1776,...
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    George Fox (category Lay theologians)
    between the two men, they had a certain rapport. Fox invited Cromwell to "lay down his crown at the feet of Jesus" – which Cromwell declined to do. Fox...
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    Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, DL, JP, FRS (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative politician and...
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    Editors (band) (redirect from Ed Lay)
    guitar, piano), Russell Leetch (bass guitar, synthesiser, backing vocals), Ed Lay (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Justin Lockey (lead guitar), Elliott...
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    the next century, due to the efforts of many dedicated Quakers such as Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet, Quakers became convinced of the essential...
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    Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American film and television actor. He is most known for playing Paco Aguilar in Blood In, Blood Out. He...
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    began curating and directing digital art. in June 2023. The Return of Benjamin Lay will be seen again in Pittsburgh in February 2025, under the banner of...
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