All Slave-keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates

This professionally-presented edition has been thoroughly proofread and has good margins and a font size that is easy on the eyes. A passionate and zealous book which was a searing indictment of the slavekeeping classes of 18th-century America. Benjamin Lay, a Quaker abolitionist, exposes the hypocrisy of slaveholders who profess to follow Christ, yet keep their fellow human beings in bondage. Written in 1737, before the American Revolution, All Slavekeepers Who Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates was one of the first anti-slavery books and is an essential classic of abolitionist literature. Benjamin Lay lived in pre-revolutionary Pennsylvannia, and was a first-hand witness to the grotesque trade in human lives. He dedicated his life to fighting slavery and other social ills, even going so far as to live in a cave and make his own clothes so that he did not support any industry which profited from slavery.