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# The Quakers have a hero named Benjamin Lay (1677 - 1759): an Englishman who ended up in Barbados, where he saw his fill of the horrors of slavery and, because of his categorical rejection of the order prevailing on the island, was obliged to move to Penns
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/u-kvakerov-est-geroi-po-imeni-bendzhamin-lei-1677-1759-anglichanin-kotoryi-popal-na-barbados-gde-nasmotrelsia-uzhasov-rabstva-i-iz-za-kategoricheskogo-nepriiatiia-sushchestvuiushchego-n/
- Published: 2020-10-19T14:39:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:42:06.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Faith, Society, People

If you have ever been a guest in a Quaker house or in some memorial apartment, you will surely have seen the image of this man, extraordinarily widely reproduced and easily remembered: a bandy-legged fellow under 120 centimetres tall, hunchbacked, with arms longer than his legs. Such was Benjamin Lay, who became one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement.