Un revolucionario que enfrentó la esclavitud
In these pages, one of the most extraordinary contemporary practitioners of "history from below" recovers the biography of a forgotten revolutionary. Quaker, vegetarian, self-taught, sailor and prophet, Benjamin Lay starred in one of the opening moments of the fight against slavery in the United States. He was an enlightened commoner and an eighteenth-century liberation theologian. Rediker reconstructs the poetics of his daring public actions, which gave rise to direct action “guerrilla theatre”, and shows how Lay proposed an alternative way of life based on the idea that all living things are brothers.
Benjamin Lay was the first revolutionary abolitionist. He demanded an end to slavery and, consequently, a radical change in all the societies in which he had a significant presence. In addition, he entrenched abolition in a new way of life, without human and animal exploitation,...read more
