I just got on finding this video about Benjamin so I'm like down here in Baltimore and when I was a kid up in Harlem talking about him and Einstein and all the people that werenot negro and colored people which orientals and Hispanics and and on Europeans were classified as before 1960 when everybody after 68 actually started misinterpreting a whole lot of information and knowledge about for example the NAACP and who was in it non-coated people
You know the problem also I find is that the textbooks that we have are not inclusive and whenever they tried to be inclusive of history and be accurate to what was put in the papers of the time as centered upon the individual that they speak about someone is always going to try to delete formal knowledge an education for their viewpoint of what we should know and what we understand about the genocidal and the spirit diasporic situations that have happened in the world constantly and is happening now however I'd like to put on the point that people are talking about genocide about the Palestinians what about the concept of creating a genocide of the people of Israel that Hitler was trying to do not just to people that were Jewish but to the Arabs Africans homosexuals and uncertain Christian groups because of the prejudice of others at the time like the Jehovah's witness and also again the Quakers most people don't know or recognize the fact that in Ethiopia when the Nazis went in they are committed genocide on Africans not just of the Ethiopian Jews but also on mass of all the Africans and tried to eliminate the family of haile Selassie so does genocide thing that is coming up on the Palestinians one thing people have to understand is historically the dominant Force usually try to eliminate the people that are not under the influence why not the ethnic related to them that's why the Nazis were doing genetic experiments more than the slave owners after the declaration by Pope Alexander VI about with the ham theory and the religious disqualification of Africans some freedom in your based upon the concept that all Africans were willing participate participants in the Islamic faith and therefore both Nicholas an Alexander these popes actually helped create the beginning of the racial series that are now something we have to deal with and find the solution to both of these folks later on especially several well-known preachers from England that came to the United States / colonies that brought up the religious the religious legalization of slavery in your Country that you came from and then you settled here in the colonies and the racial theories of these popes oñe one based on religious affiliation with Islam therefore any African whether he was in trade with Islamic countries or not what's considered a foe to Christianity to be renewed about 1600 along with the new science that was discovering melanin and physiological differences the human species as well as other forms of nature Then after Cromwell took over England people brought over to the colonies the concepts of African racism that was used and had started to die down because of the integration of families especially the Italian families of that married with the remaining Bourbons and Hapsburg that what considered legal aids to the holy Roman empire that was established Charlemagne being made the first holy based on the concept that he had destroyed the Arab invasion or put it in check and most of Europe and Islam's threat and destruction that it was causing have been eliminated because one he was ordained by God to deliver them he was considered to be a descendant of either Mary jesus's mother's other children or a direct descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene where are the concept died down with the influence of protestant Christianity been teaching one aspect of Jesus and dominating his his his action as a lamb a virgin individual himself so there was supposed to be also 1 to 2 of the branches of charmaine's children because he was supposed to have so Charles the Great has three children technically into three areas but it was also written that he had additional children with this conflict in the writings that I read about his children and how many children he actually had and even how many wives he might have had so what people don't realize a lot of conquering forces either destroy what the history of people or if they feel something should be preserved they take it to their museums or their place so like in Benjamin lay picture that was in the closet there were a lot of secret rooms and secret closet and trick places that most castles and most manners had before things got settled down were there weren't as many6 within the different societies in the conquest of others for resources that the other countries have said they wanted and could not find in the country usually always been slowly depleted so in Europe for example the depletion of a lot of minerals or was throughout Europe resources, famine, and animal transfer diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea from pigs and sheep I'm bubonic plague from rats and bacteria reading water Ben disease by either fecal matter of humans or animals certain animals had no ability to be actually cleaned recycled I'm purified in order for people to drink safely so until pastor came about Louis Pasteur explained how he could destroy some bacteria through heat and set viruses certain viruses and rabies that was written epidemic proportions in France and developed the first treatment for rabies. The Italian merchant family of the D'Medici an extension I have a long time family that had existed actually all the way back to Rome the early days but because of the cops and the other Germanic forces coming into Rome and burning it Constantine was not able to transfer all of the records of Rome to Constantinople know all the records of Rome first three major Church divisions the beginning Constantinople that we have the Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and what was originally called the Roman Orthodox Church that we now call the Catholic Church So with the infusion of a mixed race
I come from a family of Quakers and it's wonderful to hear the story of this man and woman, so far ahead of their lifetimes! Thank you Benjamin and Sarah Lay!
I am so proud that my paternal grandfather (a kind, sweet, gentle man) is a descendant of the Quakers and Abolitionists. I am so proud that, through him, I am the 7th-Great Niece (BY BLOOD) to Anthony Benezet, the Father of Atlantic Abolitionism I don’t know yet if I am related this man, but I am glad that he was was a brother in common cause to 1/4 of my family tree. 😭❤️
An addendum to the abolitionist movement abolitionist started within the Jesuit and the Dominican orders of the Catholic Church on the basis of them deciding these two groups deciding because of the maltreatment of the Islanders the native Islanders pre Africans coming into the islands for breeding purposes I'm making a slave population of mixed race people because of a theory that had come about later on views of science and its infancy trying trying to decide whether insects birds human form individuals were all related or separate beings and whether they have mental capacities equivalent to human beings so about the same time Alexander the 6th came with the ham theory disassociate the native Islanders from being slaves because they had become Christians and the pope and the Catholic church at that time was pushing away from serfdom and the world's community an Android and and indentureship was replacing serfdom but there were those that believe that slavery outside of the surf slavery of being tied to land and therefore have no freedom to go off of that land unless traveling with the owner of that land open exchange to another property
One of the overlooked groups of people or families that push for the abolition of serfdom and indentureship and out white slavery that was transferable not on the base of property but you could take a person anywhere in the world and consider them your personal property platform of slavery Lorenzo D'Medici whose mother was first a slave then freed by his father tried his best to obtain new concepts of freedom art and alchemist theories most of current sciences developed from previous to that young man in history when is the two first abolitionist groups outside of the Hebrew nation that came out of Egypt I was not allowed to have slaves unless it was a person paying the debt and that better or that person from the family of the debtor paid for easy the criminal action of the person or the monetary debts of the family Israel was not allowed to have any person enslaved on basis of war false accusation of criminal activity continued and the only volunteer to enslavement would be someone that was a male that was in love with a female that was subjected to the house they were supposed to go to the door of their beloved owner and put it all through the awl through the ear but he was later on allowed to purchase both of their freedoms and the children were considered free and was to be given to the family within the tribe that they belong to So probably one of the hidden reasons Persia attacked attack Israel was because Persia was one of the first groups that continued slavery and all its variations however a person that freed everybody that nobody discusses that he did this and in conjunction with the agreement between Egypt and Ethiopia's ruling dynasties at the time Alexander the Great who was one of the first abolitionist and also did not enslave the fallen soldiers of Nations that he conquered after he cut the Gordian knot at Delphi I believe was it's location near the oracle. Belief in the Oracle of Delphi how many people to travel there to find out their futures so I have to check to see where the KNOT was placedWherever it was Alexander the Macedonian decided because they prophesied that he would rule the world or conquer the world if he didn't die at a young age so he went to the knot so instead of trying to unraveling by picking at i since no one could find its starting point teed off point decided to do what he felt was the most logical thing and to prove that he would conquer the world because he believed that it was his already mission or commissioned by the gods to do it so after his death when they were😊 divided in his territories the generals instead of fighting among each other they divided the world into parts I don't remember exactly how many generals he had but the ptolemies were one of his generals and that's where the confusion about whether Cleopatra is white or black I want to say macedonians were White therefore as a Ptolemy however they did not take into consideration the laws of Egypt about the veronick line had to always have the descent from the female of the Pharaoh or the female of one of the religious orders based on Ra to continue Egypt Ethiopia think that ruled any outside force until Selassie death add the dynasty that ended the dynasty that appeared at the same time period or at least as early the Hatshupet rule P.S Alexander also was the first feminist let me put a qualities he was the first equalizer he believed in the quality of men and women having the same rights legally and spiritually and whatever the way you wanted to go
What a remarkable man. It's sad that we weren't taught this is school. My German ancestors were from German Town. Some went to PA and some lines went to Rockingham Co. They eventually settled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My cousin and I, ended up behind an Amish or Mennonite people in horse and buggy on our way to our families church cemetery. There is a good number of Amish/ Mennonites there. What is the difference between the Amish and Mennonite?
I imagine that my ancestors knew him in Pennsylvania and certain that they knew of him. I am glad to hear of this good and strong couple for correct and called for actions to aid humans and other living things. There voices are still called for.
Slavery was abolished WELL over 100 years ago. Are you serious about reparations? My father stayed with my mother and taught me the importance of education and hard work. Many years later, I did the same with my family. Just do that. We don't need reparations, we need to take responsibility.
I am very happy that I just found the clip about Benjamin Lee but I still haven't found a movie about him you know that what they got their doesn't give all the information that was written in the presses and stuff so over here in the US when he got here and the controversy that was over there when he started the revolution according to what I read from the articles of papers published in Philadelphia at the time of Benjamin Franklin talking about Benjamin Leigh and also Benjamin Franklin I'm saying lay but it's putting okay so when I say late separately l a y separately I will pick that up I'm trying to figure out how to say his name and not get the British explorer named involved in it because he got all these people with the similar name I am so happy however that you have this little clip about the man I have to recommend it for people to believe me when I talk about this man because I've been talking about this man and other people and that have affected black history or involved in black history throughout the world or African related persons throughout the world the Schaumburg library up in Harlem New York previous to the new building where I called the new building used to be two buildings that were adjacent to each other and also had a unit that went into countee Cullen library 136 Street around the corner so but when I saw a picture of what they said was the Schaumburg library the only showed the section that was near the garden part that was in between the buildings😊 and so I guess that was the only building that was preserved for his staff for historical record so and the war memorial buildings that's why I called them there was there was these buildings up in Harlem that we made this kid that was Italian that I hung out with for a little while when I was kidding he became a actor but he wasn't known as a famous actor he just died as a famous actor he he he did a stent in Wise Guy and stuff like that but that was the last time I saw him when he was doing the last time I saw him when I was on the streets in New York and I was too embarrassed to tell him I was homeless because when we were growing up he thought I was going to be somebody because of my talent for writing and because of my brains Berlin turned out to be anything but a babysitter and a housekeeper well anyway the student I used to collect things from people that were passing that happened in world war I and world war II that was up in Harlem and stuff like that so we had our fun and stuff like that so I called him Porgy I don't know what his real name was I saw it and I said I got to keep on I keep on forgetting his real name and the reason I keep on forgetting his real name is I called him Porgy because some dude that we knew and what we called the war memorial buildings which war memorial gardens so there's this nice buildings on there were these nice buildings on 135th Street between 7th and 8th avenue right before you got to the police station on right hand side they all look the same but they had you know people that were from world war I living in it and they have people from world war II living in it and they used to give me and him stuff and we used to give it to the people that I thought you know what to do with some of the stuff because at one point in time I had stuff in the thing and outside of comic books of my cousin was like we don't need all this stuff so you got to get rid of her so give it to her Junior will Adam Clayton Powell Junior and we were dumping things at the Schaumburg library in the evenings when we got stuff and so we just didn't know what to do with young kids you know he was actually younger than me because I found out he died and he's just 64 years oldI'm 67 and he was 64 and I'm like I always thought he was older than me I guess because he was taller than me and I always forget that I was kind of precocious as a younger child when you say get myself into mischief and things that I shouldn't have been getting myself into like exploring places that we were supposed to not be going any place we were sneaking out then my cousin
I just read somebody said that we should somebody made the movie I just posted my suggestion for a couple of movies to Tyler Perry and I was suggesting this last night for Benjamin Lay and for him to cast little my little love of my life I'm sorry I'm being fresh Peter from game of thrones I keep on forgetting his last name I keep on forgetting his last name which I'm sorry I don't know why I keep on forgetting people's last name sometimes but I've watched him since the first time I saw him on the TV show on either ABC or NBC so I saw him in two different episodes of two things one episode he played somebody that was sick then I remember him playing a friend of a young boy in a movie I saw parts of it and I didn't see all of it and then I saw him in the one that he was conductor Oporto train station I don't know if he bought it or he what exactly about it I forgot what the what the title was whether it was the conductor or something like that but😊
So it's really nice that he got a gravestone and stuff like that I'm glad that they mentioned him I spoke about his contribution but like with everything they don't have all the information and they didn't do as extensive research is sometimes required to get down and dirty about people's lives in situation it's like the Francis Scott Key song black man in chains that every😂😂body's got on that song and the idiots don't understand that the two of the lines or three I forgot which that will mentioned in the Patriot down here in Baltimore and the other couple of papers in Baltimore that will provide an at the time of the thing you know what commenting about he didn't have a right to put that in to the into the song by these people that have fought alongside the Europeans Americans that will African descent a native American descent had also sacrificed their lives in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814
So Benjamin like Franklin and Jefferson seem to have been forgotten to have been friends at the same time so these dudes had the same attitude about the end of slavery where you know people were jumping on Thomas Jefferson for having Sally in this present day and go back in the days when he was running for president and vice president they threw up in his face about his relationship and they wanted to know what his relationship was really about cuz there was some speculation about the relationship being more than just relationship between a slave owner and the slave woman and and it was because she like Franklin's woman always rolled in the couch with him and not on top which was the norm for select mistresses
😮😮 I could never find out what happened to his wife or if they had had any pregnancies I knew that he had a cousin that was mentioned in some article from some paper some paper in Philadelphia that I went through the New York public library with the Lions guard in the gate as I called it which you know which annoying me when I was a kid because the steps were really big when you like 8 years old and you going up the steps so I found around the corner so I found around the corner on 42nd Street
Benjamin Franklin despite everybody not knowing it suggested an accurate telling of the history of humanity for the purpose of education for the purpose of American citizens he was the first person that published in the United States Benjamin Lay's book if you can find a copy of l in 1738 outside of probably the library Congress hopefully it wasn't one of the destroyed books of Jefferson and then the Adams is that was given to the library Congress for the beginning of the country's library book collection of books that was supposed to come which John Quincy Adams and Sam Adams also contributed later on to the library and also Benjamin Franklin
I've been wanting Tyler Perry to do Benjamin I've been wanting Tyler Perry to do Benjamin lay for a long time and on the 3rd I posted and then I was up most of the night and going through things and I came across when I decided I wanted to find a movie a movie about Benjamin late because I figured if somebody finally wrote another biography of him which it's like his book is semi by autobiography and his testimony about what God told him about the races and stuff like that but like I didn't get to finish the book because the copy that I got from the old guys in the neighborhood from the war memorial buildings and you know we we were getting stuff like you know men Porgy were getting a lot of stuff I was between so like from 6 to 15 I was hanging around Porgy and then hehe and I lost contact and stuff and I just wondered whether he had a copy because we were getting all these old books from people that would like a thousand years old when he used to say and they weren't really a thousand but we don't we can't be sure. Because we got some stuff that was rolled up and someone said well they think it's a t o r a h we got all this stuff so we we we we we we we we we we started when we couldn't keep the certain things we we had this happen me and Porgy a dumping stuff like I said at the Schaumburg library in front of it and to Adam Clayton Powell Junior call Junior had his place that he kept things that he said he was going to check out with someone to see what what day was so since he was who is down in DC you know I don't know if he ever took anything to the library of Congress person that we were getting me and Porgy and I am actually stopped collecting things from people like about about 70 mid 74 42 years after he passed on😊 Clayton past and 72 on the same day that Martin Luther King Jr so after the funeral and people will be giving stuff I give the stuff to the Schaumburg me and Porgy o are a couple of times to the dude that have been the super that worked over at Abyssinian that was also the super at our thing but at the building that I lived in 145 West 138th Street I got the guy's name in any anything like that but he used to like with the other dudes in the neighborhood he he had an agreement that they put the stuff in the coal
So when I was a kid before 17 I was doing some research on book that God told me to write on route to racism and prejudice what's a lot of people think I'm just delusional about what happened been working on that but I used to spend all this time as the Schaumburg library that's why I've been suggesting you know y'all check it out
They did have a copy they did have a copy of the book printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1738 printing press so Benjamin Franklin had this black chick that he was hanging out with for a number of years I mean he had a long-term relationship with her they have in the movie about Benjamin Franklin and I'm really curious I'm trying to find out if they talk about his girlfriend of all those years that was black because he got wrote up Thomas Jefferson got wrote up😊 Alexander Hamilton got wrote up when they got published or in Hamilton and Jefferson's case they were in politics after the revolutionary war the thing about Sally hemings and Thomas Jefferson is people don't realize that the there were articles written condemning his relationship
So when I found out about Benjamin Leigh not that late l a y so I have carpal tunnel syndrome I'm using the mic and so it doesn't get everything so you have to excuse the mic for not picking up my accent because I have a harlem accent not not a Midwest accent that or English accent from England London which it seems to prefer an accents of from the American accents that we have United States accents about different states
But seriously I know that the Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the book Benjamin Leigh because l a y come on thing please I'm talking I'm not talking about the explorer so there's three Benjamin's who have a similar name and a similar pronunciation but only one has a different spelling😊
There was an entrance before you got to the garden and in the back and you went through there and you went through the books that were all in Hebrew and to get to the door to go into the other part of the library so so people who would look at me like what is this little kid going through this stuff like this and figuring out ways to go all over the place and the big library as I called it
So this morning I woke up and I have my I guess my sense of humor was pushing me because I got this thing from jcd that said and I said well want you become be his cousin what time is Payne to him because I don't really know if it's a gag that's on the thing with the Instagram or if it's the real jcd that's why I call Johnny Depp I give people new names unfortunately that I like I'm kind of eccentric so you got to understand that you got to be in centric when you're a child and God says okay I want you your 8 years old I want you to start doing research on a book on roots and racism and prejudice and you like OK I I say and then by the time I'm 17 I'm finished up with the book and I get kicked out the house because I wanted to go to college out of state so you know my life is a bunch of weird situations keep on happening to me and everybody in the family says I complain about it well anyway I'm so glad that people who have seen this post and this video on even though it's not that much and that's the wrong place for the grave site by the way people that you got it wrong he's by a tree m or Willow I'm not a m e l m or Willow I got I kind of got his what I received the way he was at because I know that he had no gravestone but I didn't know your people were going to give him a gravestone
Well I just put in about the Arabic book that's what we in the library in that always brought me gave me cookies and milk at the Schaumburg called it because we didn't know the title and the brother we forgot to ask the brother if it had a title and so the brother said that he thought it was somebody's handwritten diary and that they had hand bounded and stuff like that and then you know we were saying well there were people that were not just people that lived in clans and tribal units in Africa that were enslaved but also princes and other people educated people of different African cultures because I was talking to about Alexander Pushkin because I wanted to take up Russian at Bronx high School of science butt in Spanish but my cousin wouldn't let me because my foster sister wanted to learn French so I had to take a French and and so when I try to study Russian at Morgan and 76 I lent my book to a brother in moons Church
Does Schaumburg library copy was given to it by a kid that founded from somebody older that lived in Harlem how they got the book I don't know it was like really delicate and we would like one generation we should really read the book to the library and then I and we were like you know we keep on getting these books and I'll keep on finding them at thrift stores and old people be giving it to me in Harlem and stuff like that I'm bringing it to the library and Adam Clayton Powell Junior and we like you know we got this so we didn't know what it was me in the library so we turning upside down and all around and stuff trying to figure out what is this is what is this and then it comes to his brother that new Arabic and he said oh it's ancient it's an older form of Arabic and we said oh so do you read it and he said he knew it and stuff but he wasn't too clear about all of us and stuff like that so
One thing in the minute video that they didn't mention and one thing that this guy didn't mention that the papers that talked about Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin lay play forgot to mention that they forgot to mention that the two was sneaking people out of people's places and then the people that didn't have no slaves he was putting slaves where he was sneaking them and their places and stuff like that so he was he actually caused controversy in the United States as we know now when we were colonies for what he was doing and so the papers wrote that he was the first one over where he came from started this mess about freeing the black people all over the world and basically because he got this Revelation that God was saying that he didn't put no hamstery out and he didn't put no racism into the world that was man in the devil
I wish someone would make a movie of his life. Great men don't have to be big to be powerful and brave. I had never heard of him until 2024.
I just got on finding this video about Benjamin so I'm like down here in Baltimore and when I was a kid up in Harlem talking about him and Einstein and all the people that werenot negro and colored people which orientals and Hispanics and and on Europeans were classified as before 1960 when everybody after 68 actually started misinterpreting a whole lot of information and knowledge about for example the NAACP and who was in it non-coated people
You know the problem also I find is that the textbooks that we have are not inclusive and whenever they tried to be inclusive of history and be accurate to what was put in the papers of the time as centered upon the individual that they speak about someone is always going to try to delete formal knowledge an education for their viewpoint of what we should know and what we understand about the genocidal and the spirit diasporic situations that have happened in the world constantly and is happening now however I'd like to put on the point that people are talking about genocide about the Palestinians what about the concept of creating a genocide of the people of Israel that Hitler was trying to do not just to people that were Jewish but to the Arabs Africans homosexuals and uncertain Christian groups because of the prejudice of others at the time like the Jehovah's witness and also again the Quakers most people don't know or recognize the fact that in Ethiopia when the Nazis went in they are committed genocide on Africans not just of the Ethiopian Jews but also on mass of all the Africans and tried to eliminate the family of haile Selassie so does genocide thing that is coming up on the Palestinians one thing people have to understand is historically the dominant Force usually try to eliminate the people that are not under the influence why not the ethnic related to them that's why the Nazis were doing genetic experiments more than the slave owners after the declaration by Pope Alexander VI about with the ham theory and the religious disqualification of Africans some freedom in your based upon the concept that all Africans were willing participate participants in the Islamic faith and therefore both Nicholas an Alexander these popes actually helped create the beginning of the racial series that are now something we have to deal with and find the solution to both of these folks later on especially several well-known preachers from England that came to the United States / colonies that brought up the religious the religious legalization of slavery in your
Country that you came from and then you settled here in the colonies and the racial theories of these popes oñe one based on religious affiliation with Islam therefore any African whether he was in trade with Islamic countries or not what's considered a foe to Christianity to be renewed about 1600 along with the new science that was discovering melanin and physiological differences the human species as well as other forms of nature
Then after Cromwell took over England people brought over to the colonies the concepts of African racism that was used and had started to die down because of the integration of families especially the Italian families of that married with the remaining Bourbons and Hapsburg that what considered legal aids to the holy Roman empire that was established Charlemagne being made the first holy based on the concept that he had destroyed the Arab invasion or put it in check and most of Europe and Islam's threat and destruction that it was causing have been eliminated because one he was ordained by God to deliver them he was considered to be a descendant of either Mary jesus's mother's other children or a direct descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene where are the concept died down with the influence of protestant Christianity been teaching one aspect of Jesus and dominating his his his action as a lamb a virgin individual himself so there was supposed to be also 1 to 2 of the branches of charmaine's children because he was supposed to have so Charles the Great has three children technically into three areas but it was also written that he had additional children with this conflict in the writings that I read about his children and how many children he actually had and even how many wives he might have had so what people don't realize a lot of conquering forces either destroy what the history of people or if they feel something should be preserved they take it to their museums or their place so like in Benjamin lay picture that was in the closet there were a lot of secret rooms and secret closet and trick places that most castles and most manners had before things got settled down were there weren't as many6 within the different societies in the conquest of others for resources that the other countries have said they wanted and could not find in the country usually always been slowly depleted so in Europe for example the depletion of a lot of minerals or was throughout Europe resources, famine, and animal transfer diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea from pigs and sheep I'm bubonic plague from rats and bacteria reading water Ben disease by either fecal matter of humans or animals certain animals had no ability to be actually cleaned recycled I'm purified in order for people to drink safely so until pastor came about Louis Pasteur explained how he could destroy some bacteria through heat and set viruses certain viruses and rabies that was written epidemic proportions in France and developed the first treatment for rabies. The Italian merchant family of the D'Medici an extension I have a long time family that had existed actually all the way back to Rome the early days but because of the cops and the other Germanic forces coming into Rome and burning it Constantine was not able to transfer all of the records of Rome to Constantinople know all the records of Rome first three major Church divisions the beginning Constantinople that we have the Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and what was originally called the Roman Orthodox Church that we now call the Catholic Church
So with the infusion of a mixed race
I come from a family of Quakers and it's wonderful to hear the story of this man and woman, so far ahead of their lifetimes! Thank you Benjamin and Sarah Lay!
So beautiful and touching, why this is not in history books?
It shows racism isn't. Completely dead
I am so proud that my paternal grandfather (a kind, sweet, gentle man) is a descendant of the Quakers and Abolitionists. I am so proud that, through him, I am the 7th-Great Niece (BY BLOOD) to Anthony Benezet, the Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
I don’t know yet if I am related this man, but I am glad that he was was a brother in common cause to 1/4 of my family tree. 😭❤️
Very cool. Hope you carry anti-colonialism sentiments also ❤
An addendum to the abolitionist movement abolitionist started within the Jesuit and the Dominican orders of the Catholic Church on the basis of them deciding these two groups deciding because of the maltreatment of the Islanders the native Islanders pre Africans coming into the islands for breeding purposes I'm making a slave population of mixed race people because of a theory that had come about later on views of science and its infancy trying trying to decide whether insects birds human form individuals were all related or separate beings and whether they have mental capacities equivalent to human beings so about the same time Alexander the 6th came with the ham theory disassociate the native Islanders from being slaves because they had become Christians and the pope and the Catholic church at that time was pushing away from serfdom and the world's community an Android and and indentureship was replacing serfdom but there were those that believe that slavery outside of the surf slavery of being tied to land and therefore have no freedom to go off of that land unless traveling with the owner of that land open exchange to another property
One of the overlooked groups of people or families that push for the abolition of serfdom and indentureship and out white slavery that was transferable not on the base of property but you could take a person anywhere in the world and consider them your personal property platform of slavery Lorenzo D'Medici whose mother was first a slave then freed by his father tried his best to obtain new concepts of freedom art and alchemist theories most of current sciences developed from previous to that young man in history when is the two first abolitionist groups outside of the Hebrew nation that came out of Egypt I was not allowed to have slaves unless it was a person paying the debt and that better or that person from the family of the debtor paid for easy the criminal action of the person or the monetary debts of the family Israel was not allowed to have any person enslaved on basis of war false accusation of criminal activity continued and the only volunteer to enslavement would be someone that was a male that was in love with a female that was subjected to the house they were supposed to go to the door of their beloved owner and put it all through the awl through the ear but he was later on allowed to purchase both of their freedoms and the children were considered free and was to be given to the family within the tribe that they belong to
So probably one of the hidden reasons Persia attacked attack Israel was because Persia was one of the first groups that continued slavery and all its variations however a person that freed everybody that nobody discusses that he did this and in conjunction with the agreement between Egypt and Ethiopia's ruling dynasties at the time Alexander the Great who was one of the first abolitionist and also did not enslave the fallen soldiers of Nations that he conquered after he cut the Gordian knot at Delphi I believe was it's location near the oracle. Belief in the Oracle of Delphi how many people to travel there to find out their futures so I have to check to see where the KNOT was placedWherever it was Alexander the Macedonian decided because they prophesied that he would rule the world or conquer the world if he didn't die at a young age so he went to the knot so instead of trying to unraveling by picking at i since no one could find its starting point teed off point decided to do what he felt was the most logical thing and to prove that he would conquer the world because he believed that it was his already mission or commissioned by the gods to do it so after his death when they were😊 divided in his territories the generals instead of fighting among each other they divided the world into parts I don't remember exactly how many generals he had but the ptolemies were one of his generals and that's where the confusion about whether Cleopatra is white or black I want to say macedonians were White therefore as a Ptolemy however they did not take into consideration the laws of Egypt about the veronick line had to always have the descent from the female of the Pharaoh or the female of one of the religious orders based on Ra to continue Egypt Ethiopia think that ruled any outside force until Selassie death add the dynasty that ended the dynasty that appeared at the same time period or at least as early the Hatshupet rule
P.S Alexander also was the first feminist let me put a qualities he was the first equalizer he believed in the quality of men and women having the same rights legally and spiritually and whatever the way you wanted to go
Peace and blessing be apon him & his wife. 🙏😇
Right! Somebody give this man his flowers!💐 💐
Sucks other Quakers disowned him. Kudos to Benjamin Lay and the Quakers and Mennonites of Germantown who petitioned against slavery in 1688.
What a remarkable man. It's sad that we weren't taught this is school. My German ancestors were from German Town. Some went to PA and some lines went to Rockingham Co. They eventually settled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. My cousin and I, ended up behind an Amish or Mennonite people in horse and buggy on our way to our families church cemetery. There is a good number of Amish/ Mennonites there. What is the difference between the Amish and Mennonite?
@@rainbowunicornprincessandt7796 The difference may be a interesting Google search.
What A Beautiful Story. I Bless The Quakers, For Being So Zealous To Help Slaves, And End Slavery. Amen!!!
I imagine that my ancestors knew him in Pennsylvania and certain that they knew of him. I am glad to hear of this good and strong couple for correct and called for actions to aid humans and other living things. There voices are still called for.
A man so ahead of his time in so many ways.
Hollywood needs to do a movie about him.
Why?
Becausr he was aGreat man who caref about humanity but im not surprised by your response ...being that you are a Toubab
@@murielbarry3766 because we need to uncover REAL American heroes and Truly teach history, warts and all.
The reparations movement is one that should be the natural progression of those wanting to abolish slavery.
Slavery was abolished WELL over 100 years ago. Are you serious about reparations? My father stayed with my mother and taught me the importance of education and hard work. Many years later, I did the same with my family.
Just do that. We don't need reparations, we need to take responsibility.
Thank you for sharing this great video & story
Thanks for bringing awareness about the remarkable Benjamin Lay. Thanks to the Lawer who donated the money for his gravestone.
I am very happy that I just found the clip about Benjamin Lee but I still haven't found a movie about him you know that what they got their doesn't give all the information that was written in the presses and stuff so over here in the US when he got here and the controversy that was over there when he started the revolution according to what I read from the articles of papers published in Philadelphia at the time of Benjamin Franklin talking about Benjamin Leigh and also Benjamin Franklin I'm saying lay but it's putting okay so when I say late separately l a y separately I will pick that up I'm trying to figure out how to say his name and not get the British explorer named involved in it because he got all these people with the similar name I am so happy however that you have this little clip about the man I have to recommend it for people to believe me when I talk about this man because I've been talking about this man and other people and that have affected black history or involved in black history throughout the world or African related persons throughout the world the Schaumburg library up in Harlem New York previous to the new building where I called the new building used to be two buildings that were adjacent to each other and also had a unit that went into countee Cullen library 136 Street around the corner so but when I saw a picture of what they said was the Schaumburg library the only showed the section that was near the garden part that was in between the buildings😊 and so I guess that was the only building that was preserved for his staff for historical record so and the war memorial buildings that's why I called them there was there was these buildings up in Harlem that we made this kid that was Italian that I hung out with for a little while when I was kidding he became a actor but he wasn't known as a famous actor he just died as a famous actor he he he did a stent in Wise Guy and stuff like that but that was the last time I saw him when he was doing the last time I saw him when I was on the streets in New York and I was too embarrassed to tell him I was homeless because when we were growing up he thought I was going to be somebody because of my talent for writing and because of my brains Berlin turned out to be anything but a babysitter and a housekeeper well anyway the student I used to collect things from people that were passing that happened in world war I and world war II that was up in Harlem and stuff like that so we had our fun and stuff like that so I called him Porgy I don't know what his real name was I saw it and I said I got to keep on I keep on forgetting his real name and the reason I keep on forgetting his real name is I called him Porgy because some dude that we knew and what we called the war memorial buildings which war memorial gardens so there's this nice buildings on there were these nice buildings on 135th Street between 7th and 8th avenue right before you got to the police station on right hand side they all look the same but they had you know people that were from world war I living in it and they have people from world war II living in it and they used to give me and him stuff and we used to give it to the people that I thought you know what to do with some of the stuff because at one point in time I had stuff in the thing and outside of comic books of my cousin was like we don't need all this stuff so you got to get rid of her so give it to her Junior will Adam Clayton Powell Junior and we were dumping things at the Schaumburg library in the evenings when we got stuff and so we just didn't know what to do with young kids you know he was actually younger than me because I found out he died and he's just 64 years oldI'm 67 and he was 64 and I'm like I always thought he was older than me I guess because he was taller than me and I always forget that I was kind of precocious as a younger child when you say get myself into mischief and things that I shouldn't have been getting myself into like exploring places that we were supposed to not be going any place we were sneaking out then my cousin
It’s that the church from the walking dead frist season?
I heard of him from Great Courses series on slavery
But I'm glad that you mentioned his wife because most people don't know like
I just read somebody said that we should somebody made the movie I just posted my suggestion for a couple of movies to Tyler Perry and I was suggesting this last night for Benjamin Lay and for him to cast little my little love of my life I'm sorry I'm being fresh Peter from game of thrones I keep on forgetting his last name I keep on forgetting his last name which I'm sorry I don't know why I keep on forgetting people's last name sometimes but I've watched him since the first time I saw him on the TV show on either ABC or NBC so I saw him in two different episodes of two things one episode he played somebody that was sick then I remember him playing a friend of a young boy in a movie I saw parts of it and I didn't see all of it and then I saw him in the one that he was conductor Oporto train station I don't know if he bought it or he what exactly about it I forgot what the what the title was whether it was the conductor or something like that but😊
So it's really nice that he got a gravestone and stuff like that I'm glad that they mentioned him I spoke about his contribution but like with everything they don't have all the information and they didn't do as extensive research is sometimes required to get down and dirty about people's lives in situation it's like the Francis Scott Key song black man in chains that every😂😂body's got on that song and the idiots don't understand that the two of the lines or three I forgot which that will mentioned in the Patriot down here in Baltimore and the other couple of papers in Baltimore that will provide an at the time of the thing you know what commenting about he didn't have a right to put that in to the into the song by these people that have fought alongside the Europeans Americans that will African descent a native American descent had also sacrificed their lives in the Battle of Baltimore in 1814
So Benjamin like Franklin and Jefferson seem to have been forgotten to have been friends at the same time so these dudes had the same attitude about the end of slavery where you know people were jumping on Thomas Jefferson for having
Sally in this present day and go back in the days when he was running for president and vice president they threw up in his face about his relationship and they wanted to know what his relationship was really about cuz there was some speculation about the relationship being more than just relationship between a slave owner and the slave woman and and it was because she like Franklin's woman always rolled in the couch with him and not on top which was the norm for select mistresses
😮😮 I could never find out what happened to his wife or if they had had any pregnancies I knew that he had a cousin that was mentioned in some article from some paper some paper in Philadelphia that I went through the New York public library with the Lions guard in the gate as I called it which you know which annoying me when I was a kid because the steps were really big when you like 8 years old and you going up the steps so I found around the corner so I found around the corner on 42nd Street
Benjamin Franklin despite everybody not knowing it suggested an accurate telling of the history of humanity for the purpose of education for the purpose of American citizens he was the first person that published in the United States Benjamin Lay's book if you can find a copy of l in 1738 outside of probably the library Congress hopefully it wasn't one of the destroyed books of Jefferson and then the Adams is that was given to the library Congress for the beginning of the country's library book collection of books that was supposed to come which John Quincy Adams and Sam Adams also contributed later on to the library and also Benjamin Franklin
I've been wanting Tyler Perry to do Benjamin I've been wanting Tyler Perry to do Benjamin lay for a long time and on the 3rd I posted and then I was up most of the night and going through things and I came across when I decided I wanted to find a movie a movie about Benjamin late because I figured if somebody finally wrote another biography of him which it's like his book is semi by autobiography and his testimony about what God told him about the races and stuff like that but like I didn't get to finish the book because the copy that I got from the old guys in the neighborhood from the war memorial buildings and you know we we were getting stuff like you know men Porgy were getting a lot of stuff I was between so like from 6 to 15 I was hanging around Porgy and then hehe and I lost contact and stuff and I just wondered whether he had a copy because we were getting all these old books from people that would like a thousand years old when he used to say and they weren't really a thousand but we don't we can't be sure. Because we got some stuff that was rolled up and someone said well they think it's a t o r a h we got all this stuff so we we we we we we we we we we started when we couldn't keep the certain things we we had this happen me and Porgy a dumping stuff like I said at the Schaumburg library in front of it and to Adam Clayton Powell Junior call Junior had his place that he kept things that he said he was going to check out with someone to see what what day was so since he was who is down in DC you know I don't know if he ever took anything to the library of Congress person that we were getting me and Porgy and I am actually stopped collecting things from people like about about 70 mid 74 42 years after he passed on😊 Clayton past and 72 on the same day that Martin Luther King Jr so after the funeral and people will be giving stuff I give the stuff to the Schaumburg me and Porgy o are a couple of times to the dude that have been the super that worked over at Abyssinian that was also the super at our thing but at the building that I lived in 145 West 138th Street I got the guy's name in any anything like that but he used to like with the other dudes in the neighborhood he he had an agreement that they put the stuff in the coal
So when I was a kid before 17 I was doing some research on book that God told me to write on route to racism and prejudice what's a lot of people think I'm just delusional about what happened been working on that but I used to spend all this time as the Schaumburg library that's why I've been suggesting you know y'all check it out
They did have a copy they did have a copy of the book printed by Benjamin Franklin in 1738 printing press so Benjamin Franklin had this black chick that he was hanging out with for a number of years I mean he had a long-term relationship with her they have in the movie about Benjamin Franklin and I'm really curious I'm trying to find out if they talk about his girlfriend of all those years that was black because he got wrote up Thomas Jefferson got wrote up😊 Alexander Hamilton got wrote up when they got published or in Hamilton and Jefferson's case they were in politics after the revolutionary war the thing about Sally hemings and Thomas Jefferson is people don't realize that the there were articles written condemning his relationship
So when I found out about Benjamin Leigh not that late l a y so I have carpal tunnel syndrome I'm using the mic and so it doesn't get everything so you have to excuse the mic for not picking up my accent because I have a harlem accent not not a Midwest accent that or English accent from England London which it seems to prefer an accents of from the American accents that we have United States accents about different states
But seriously I know that the Thomas Jefferson had a copy of the book Benjamin Leigh because l a y come on thing please I'm talking I'm not talking about the explorer so there's three Benjamin's who have a similar name and a similar pronunciation but only one has a different spelling😊
There was an entrance before you got to the garden and in the back and you went through there and you went through the books that were all in Hebrew and to get to the door to go into the other part of the library so so people who would look at me like what is this little kid going through this stuff like this and figuring out ways to go all over the place and the big library as I called it
So this morning I woke up and I have my I guess my sense of humor was pushing me because I got this thing from jcd that said and I said well want you become be his cousin what time is Payne to him because I don't really know if it's a gag that's on the thing with the Instagram or if it's the real jcd that's why I call Johnny Depp I give people new names unfortunately that I like I'm kind of eccentric so you got to understand that you got to be in centric when you're a child and God says okay I want you your 8 years old I want you to start doing research on a book on roots and racism and prejudice and you like OK I I say and then by the time I'm 17 I'm finished up with the book and I get kicked out the house because I wanted to go to college out of state so you know my life is a bunch of weird situations keep on happening to me and everybody in the family says I complain about it well anyway I'm so glad that people who have seen this post and this video on even though it's not that much and that's the wrong place for the grave site by the way people that you got it wrong he's by a tree m or Willow I'm not a m e l m or Willow I got I kind of got his what I received the way he was at because I know that he had no gravestone but I didn't know your people were going to give him a gravestone
Well I just put in about the Arabic book that's what we in the library in that always brought me gave me cookies and milk at the Schaumburg called it because we didn't know the title and the brother we forgot to ask the brother if it had a title and so the brother said that he thought it was somebody's handwritten diary and that they had hand bounded and stuff like that and then you know we were saying well there were people that were not just people that lived in clans and tribal units in Africa that were enslaved but also princes and other people educated people of different African cultures because I was talking to about Alexander Pushkin because I wanted to take up Russian at Bronx high School of science butt in Spanish but my cousin wouldn't let me because my foster sister wanted to learn French so I had to take a French and and so when I try to study Russian at Morgan and 76 I lent my book to a brother in moons Church
Does Schaumburg library copy was given to it by a kid that founded from somebody older that lived in Harlem how they got the book I don't know it was like really delicate and we would like one generation we should really read the book to the library and then I and we were like you know we keep on getting these books and I'll keep on finding them at thrift stores and old people be giving it to me in Harlem and stuff like that I'm bringing it to the library and Adam Clayton Powell Junior and we like you know we got this so we didn't know what it was me in the library so we turning upside down and all around and stuff trying to figure out what is this is what is this and then it comes to his brother that new Arabic and he said oh it's ancient it's an older form of Arabic and we said oh so do you read it and he said he knew it and stuff but he wasn't too clear about all of us and stuff like that so
One thing in the minute video that they didn't mention and one thing that this guy didn't mention that the papers that talked about Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin lay play forgot to mention that they forgot to mention that the two was sneaking people out of people's places and then the people that didn't have no slaves he was putting slaves where he was sneaking them and their places and stuff like that so he was he actually caused controversy in the United States as we know now when we were colonies for what he was doing and so the papers wrote that he was the first one over where he came from started this mess about freeing the black people all over the world and basically because he got this Revelation that God was saying that he didn't put no hamstery out and he didn't put no racism into the world that was man in the devil