Historic Arch Street Meeting House

Join us at Arch Street Meeting House on Friday, May 12th, for The Vegetarian Legacy of Benjamin Lay, presented by Vance Lehmkuhl.Benjamin Lay was scorned and laughed at during his life for his stubborn, relentless advocacy for the abolition of slavery from as early as 1732, and he spent nearly two centuries as a nearly-forgotten footnote to history. Thanks to Marcus Rediker's 2017 biography The Fearless Benjamin Lay (now optioned for a major motion picture!), more Americans are starting to learn and appreciate how his anti-slavery activism reverberated through U.S. history, up to and beyond the US civil war. But