Sarah Benjamin Lay https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/sarah-benjamin-lay/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Tue, 08 May 2018 21:27:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sarah Benjamin Lay https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/sarah-benjamin-lay/ 32 32 16720591 Quaker Abolitionist Benjamin Lay Remembered https://www.quakerranter.org/quaker-abolitionist-benjamin-lay-remembered/ https://www.quakerranter.org/quaker-abolitionist-benjamin-lay-remembered/#respond Tue, 08 May 2018 21:02:25 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=60865 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting has published a piece on the rehabilitation of disowned seventeenth century Quaker rabblerouser Benjamin Lay

On Saturday, April 21, 2018, Abington Monthly Meeting unveiled a burial stone for Sarah & Benjamin Lay. The event which featured opening remarks by author Marcus Rediker and local resident and Quaker Avis Wanda McClinton was followed by a gathering in the meetinghouse in the manner of a Friends Memorial Meeting.

Abington was the first Friends meeting I ever visited and I’ve loved the story of Lay since the time I first stumbled on it (even as a kid I was enough of a local history nerd that I might have read of Lay’s antics before I ever met a Quaker). I’m personally so happy to see him get this wider recognition. The PYM piece is all-text but much of the grave marker ceremony has been posted to YouTube.

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