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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist - Hardcover

Rediker, Marcus

 
9781786634719: The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1786634716 ISBN 13: 9781786634719
Verlag: Verso Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theatre to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything produced by slave labour, championed animal rights, and embraced vegetarianism. He acted on his ideals to create a new, practical, revolutionary way of life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His many books include The Slave Ship, The Amistad Rebellion and The Fearless Benjamin Lay. He has produced a film, Ghosts of Amistad, with director Tony Buba, and written a play, The Return of Benjamin Lay, with playwright Naomi Wallace. He lives in Pittsburgh.

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Verlag
Verso Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786634716
ISBN 13 
9781786634719
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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