Benjamin Lay
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Having witnessed the horrors of slavery as a merchant in Barbados, Lay dedicated himself to abolitionism. In 1731, he set out for Pennsylvania, where he resumed his campaign against slavery, writing pamphlets and speaking out at Quaker meetings. At the time, members of the Religious Society of Friends, as Quakers are formally known, enslaved people and participated in the slave trade."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Benjamin Franklin\u00e2\u0080\u0099s wife, Deborah, owned this portrait of Lay. Although Franklin was an enslaver, his printing shop had published Lay\u00e2\u0080\u0099s abolitionist tract \u00e2\u0080\u009cAll Slave-keepers that Keep the Innocent in Bondage, Apostates,\u00e2\u0080\u009d in 1738. Here, Lay stands before his cave-like home, holding a treatise \u00e2\u0080\u009con happiness\u00e2\u0080\u009d by the English Quaker philosopher Thomas Tryon. Shortly before Lay\u00e2\u0080\u0099s death, the Philadelphia Society of Friends passed a resolution expelling members who traded enslaved people."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en Colchester, Inglaterra"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Aunque de corta estatura, el reformador cu\u00c3\u00a1quero Benjamin Lay fue una figura grande del emergente movimiento antiesclavista del siglo XVIII. Testigo de los horrores de la esclavitud siendo comerciante en Barbados, Lay se dedic\u00c3\u00b3 al abolicionismo. En 1731 se fue a Pensilvania y all\u00c3\u00ad continu\u00c3\u00b3 su campa\u00c3\u00b1a, escribiendo panfletos y hablando en reuniones de los cu\u00c3\u00a1queros. En aquel tiempo, varios miembros de la Sociedad Religiosa de Amigos, nombre formal de los cu\u00c3\u00a1queros, ten\u00c3\u00adan personas esclavizadas y participaban en su comercio."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Este retrato de Lay perteneci\u00c3\u00b3 a la esposa de Benjamin Franklin, Deborah. Aunque Franklin tuvo esclavos, su imprenta hab\u00c3\u00ada publicado en 1738 el folleto abolicionista de Lay \u00e2\u0080\u009cTodos los esclavistas que mantienen a inocentes en servidumbre, ap\u00c3\u00b3statas\u00e2\u0080\u009d. Aqu\u00c3\u00ad Lay aparece delante de su hogar, que semeja una cueva, sosteniendo un tratado \u00e2\u0080\u009csobre la felicidad\u00e2\u0080\u009d del fil\u00c3\u00b3sofo cu\u00c3\u00a1quero ingl\u00c3\u00a9s Thomas Tryon. A poco de su muerte, la Sociedad de Amigos de Filadelfia aprob\u00c3\u00b3 una resoluci\u00c3\u00b3n para expulsar a los miembros que traficaran con esclavos."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "(Brown Brothers Auction, Buckingham, Penn., 1976); purchased by (Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild, Jr., Olde Hope Antiques, New Hope, Pa.); purchased 1979 NPG"}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; this acquisition was made possible by a generous contribution from the James Smithson Society"}], "name": [{"label": "Artist", "content": "William Williams, Sr., 1727 - 27 Apr 1791"}, {"label": "Sitter", "content": "Benjamin Lay, c. 1681 - 3 Feb 1759"}], "topic": [{"label": "Topic", "content": "Costume\\Headgear\\Hat"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Nature & Environment\\Clouds"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Printed Material\\Book"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Exterior\\Landscape\\Rural"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Nature & Environment\\Plant\\Tree"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Equipment\\Walking stick\\Cane"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Personal Attribute\\Facial Hair\\Beard"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Container\\Basket"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Nature & Environment\\Fruit\\Grapes"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Nature & Environment\\Fruit\\Watermelon"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Benjamin Lay: Male"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Benjamin Lay: Society and Social Change\\Reformer"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Benjamin Lay: Society and Social Change\\Philanthropist"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Benjamin Lay: Society and Social Change\\Reformer\\Abolitionist"}, {"label": "Topic", "content": "Portrait"}], "physicalDescription": [{"label": "Medium", "content": "Oil on mahogany panel"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Panel: 37.8 x 36.2 x 3.8cm (14 7/8 x 14 1/4 x 1 1/2\")"}, {"label": "Dimensions", "content": "Frame: 54.3 x 51.4 x 5.1cm (21 3/8 x 20 1/4 x 2\")"}], "dataSource": [{"label": "Data Source", "content": "National Portrait Gallery"}], "objectRights": [{"label": "Restrictions & Rights", "content": "CC0"}], "objectType": [{"label": "Type", "content": "Painting"}]}}, "url": "edanmdm:npg_NPG.79.171", "hash": "35e8bdf936318558d641e490020e9cdf4ea942a5", "docSignature": "cdd826e44f66505e639a2add4bd9abff", "timestamp": 1658327600, "lastTimeUpdated": 1656751823, "title": "Benjamin Lay"}