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\nHe lived in a cave\, made his own clothes\, refused to consume anything produced by sla ve labor\, championed animal rights\, and embraced vegetarianism. \; H e acted on his ideals to create a new\, practical\, revolutionary way of l ife. \; The program addresses two questions: How did Lay make the brea kthrough to abolitionism at a time when so many of his peers\, including Q uakers\, accepted slavery? And why is this pioneer of anti-slavery so litt le-known today?
\nPresenter: \;Marcus Rediker is Distinguished P rofessor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. \; His & ldquo\;histories from below&rdquo\; have won numerous awards\, including t he George Washington Book Prize\, and have been translated into seventeen languages worldwide. \; He is the author of "The Fearless Benjamin Lay : The Quaker Dwarf who became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist". on wh ich this program is based. He has produced a prize-winning documentary\, " Ghosts of Amistad" (director Tony Buba) about the \;Amistad \;slav e ship revolt of 1839. \; He is currently working as guest curator in the JMW Turner Gallery at Tate Britain and writing a book about escaping s lavery by sea in antebellum America.
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