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First Meeting
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 7 p.m.
Agenda
- First book — an introduction to it
- What books we want to read next
First Book
*Inviting all of Burlington to read it with us
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist (Beacon Press, 2017)
by Marcus Rediker, Professor of Early American History, Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh
Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. Mocked and scorned by his contemporaries, Lay was unflinching in his opposition to slavery, often performing colorful guerrilla theater to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He drew on his ideals to create a revolutionary way of life, one that embodied the proclamation “no justice, no peace.”
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Publisher, Beacon Press: http://www.beacon.org/The-Fearless-Benjamin-Lay-P1357.aspx
also at Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-fearless-benjamin-lay-marcus-rediker/1125314485
and Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Benjamin-Lay-Revolutionary-Abolitionist/dp/0807035920