Video: Marcus Rediker — History from Below after the Transnational Turn: The Case of a Forgotten 18th-century Revolutionary
Marcus Rediker on the life of Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay and the methods of "history from below."
Last October, Marcus Rediker gave a talk at SOAS, as part of the Development Studies Seminar Series. Titled "History from Below after the Transnational Turn: The Case of a Forgotten 18th-century Revolutionary," Rediker's lecture narrates the life of Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay (subject of Rediker's The Fearless Benjamin Lay The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist) and explicates the methods and results of "history from below."
Watch a full video of Rediker's presentation below.
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