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Archive of The Fearless Benjamin Lay

    Verso Books
    18 November 2018
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    History: A Verso Bookshelf

    Our essential titles on radical histories.

    Verso Books
    12 March 2018
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    Video: Marcus Rediker — History from Below after the Transnational Turn: The Case of a Forgotten 18th-century Revolutionary

    Marcus Rediker on the life of Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay and the methods of "history from below." 

    Marcus Rediker
    22 November 2017
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    Radical Abolitionist Benjamin Lay Reclaimed by Quakers 279 Years Later

    In 1738, radical abolitionist and Quaker dwarf Benjamin Lay was disowned by the Quaker community. He was well known for his uncompromising and confrontational stance against slavery and his commitment to convince his fellow Quakers to completely denounce and abolish it. Nearly three hundred years later, history is finally looking up for Lay.

    Virginie Bloch-Lainé
    09 August 2017
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    Marcus Rediker: "I took an interest in pirates and sailors because they were poor."

    In an interview pegged to the new French edition of Outlaws of the Atlantic, Marcus Rediker discusses his background and the paths that led him to study sailors and pirates. 

    02 May 2017
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    New Perspectives on the Black Atlantic

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