Avis Wanda McClinton interviewed for A Film about Benjamin Lay, a Quaker abolitionist with a passion for freedom
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The Enslaved
Their descendants
339 Manumissions and Beyond Project
Unearthing The Legacy:
Quaker Enslavers, The Enslaved and Their Descendants
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It's striking that Benjamin Lay's activism was so confrontational that even fellow Quakers expelled him, yet his witness on slavery eventually helped shift the Society of Friends toward abolition. That tension between being rejected in his own time and vindicated later raises a question: how do we judge prophetic figures whose methods alienate the very communities they hope to change? I'd be curious whether the film explores that cost to Lay personally, or focuses mainly on his ideas.
More on this: https://collagemaker.org/
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