Not P just Dixon

[rich]

interesting. Over the holiday I happened to visit the small preserved home
of Quaker abolitionists, Levi and Catherine Coffin, who helped hundreds of
freedom seekers escape slavery as part of the Underground Railroad in
eastern Indiana. The forethought that went into building the house, the
strategies to avoid bounty hunters and hide people, etc. was uplifting to
read about in the heart of Trump country

rich

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the other end of the human scale is *The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The
> Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist*
> <https://www.guardianbookshop.com/fearless-benjamin-lay.html> (Verso) by
> Marcus Rediker. Lay was an 18th-century British-born progressive who took
> it on himself to point out to his fellow Quakers in Philadelphia that
> keeping slaves was hardly in line with the sect’s founding principles of
> brotherly equality. When arguing didn’t work, Lay staged noisy
> interventions, and on one occasion even threw a bladder filled with pig’s
> blood at his “covetous” co-religionists. What made this moral and physical
> bravery all the more remarkable was that Lay was tiny, no more than 4ft
> tall. “In his time,” concludes Rediker, “Benjamin may have been the most
> radical person on the planet.” This, then, is micro-history at its best, a
> careful concentration on one small man’s activities as a way of testing out
> the limits of what could be thought, known and felt in the hive-mind of
> early modern America.
>
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