And, bringing to bear the power of his own multidecade research on the early Atlantic World maritime realities, Rediker then deftly narrates and interprets that life. Opening with a dramatic vignette of Lay’s renditions of one-man theatre, Rediker pulls his readers into some of the dramatic ways that Lay packed considerable action, geography, philosophy, street drama and influence into his eight-decade-long life, most of which was spent among Philadelphia-area Quakers.
But in seven gracefully crafted chapters and some two dozen images, Marcus Rediker makes a persuasive case for why Benjamin Lay and his legacy are worth caring about. Who cares about Benjamin Lay (1682–1759), a 4-foot-tall, malformed, 18th-century member of a minority religious network known as the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)? Until recently, not very many people. The Quaker Dwarf Who Became The First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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