The award-winning London production of THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY is coming to the Sheen Center. Following the Sunday, March 16 matinee performance, the show will host a talkback with the full ...

THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY comes to the Sheen Center For Thought And Culture next year. Previews begin Friday, March 14, 2025, in advance of an opening on Monday, March 17. Performances continue ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Saturday, April 11, 2026, 4pm -- Carnegie One -- Braddock, Pennsylvania BRADDOCK, Pa., March 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Fearless Benjamin is a new children’s book by Michelle Markel and Marcus Rediker, illustrated by Sarah Bachman. 32 pages, 10 x 8” hardcover. $18.95. For readers aged 4-8 and up. Pre-order from PM ...

Quantum Theatre’s new production will shine a light on a historical rebel you won’t find in textbooks. Benjamin Lay was an 18th-century abolitionist and animal rights advocate. He was also part of the ...

Our latest Tales From TikTok is the story of Benjamin Lay, an English Quaker and early white abolitionist, an unsung hero in Black History. In the 1700s, the Quaker dwarf and esteemed author was one ...

Benjamin Lay wrote one of the first treatises against slavery in Colonial America, a time when many prosperous Pennsylvania Quakers were slave owners. But for speaking out, the Quakers disowned him.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Although small in stature, Quaker reformer Benjamin Lay loomed large in the emerging eighteenth century antislavery ...

Introduction: Prophet against slavery -- Early life -- "A man of strife & contention" -- Philadelphia's "Men of renown" -- How slave keepers became apostates -- Books and a new life -- Death, memory, ...

The Quakers are remembered as one of the organizations that fought to abolish slavery in the United States in the late 1700s. But 30 years before the Quakers joined the abolition struggle, many of ...

BRADDOCK, Pa., March 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Braddock Films Inc. announces the world premiere of Becoming Benjamin Lay will take place on April 11, 2026, 4pm at Carnegie One, located at 419 Library ...