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Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Who Called Out the Hypocrisy of Slavery, Part 1
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32 minutes
Released:
Nov 19, 2019
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Podcast episode
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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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Released:
Nov 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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