Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay was disowned for condemning slave owners - The Washington Post

Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay was disowned for condemning slave owners - The Washington Post:



“He actually suggested that we reconsider Benjamin Lay’s membership,” said Loretta Fox, the Abington Meeting’s administrator. “Maybe we could right the wrong done to him.”



But first, they had to come to terms with Lay. Some had misgivings. Was Lay the eccentric “little man” with a “diseased” intellect, as some historians portrayed him? Or was he the revolutionary anti-slavery hero portrayed by Rediker?