Benjamin Lay painted by William Williams in 1790. Photo: From National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, via Art Resource, New York / Wikimedia Commons.
Benjamin Lay ‘undisowned’ by four Meetings
A fourth Meeting has 'undisowned' Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay
by Rebecca Hardy
7th December 2018
Southern East Anglian Friends have expressed unity with the formerly disowned radical Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay.
The Area Meeting (AM) is the final of the four Meetings whose predecessors disowned him in the eighteenth century to reconsider. The others are Abington Monthly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the United States, and North London Area Meeting.
