Excerpt from Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford: Two of the Earliest Public Advocates for the Emancipation of the Enslaved Africans In human flesh, and shewing the in consistency which marked the conduct of Christians, who held their fellow creatures in bondage, theopposition to their views and wishes was so general and so intense, that it is believed from that cause the intellect of those re markable men became partially affect ed. But who will question that they were instrumental (at a great sacrifice indeed) in laying the foundation of the change of Opinion, which afterd he came universal in this com'monwealth, andspread its benign influence through neighbouring states, and to remote na. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.