Prophet Against Slavery - Benjamin Lay, a Graphic Novel

The revolutionary life of an eighteenth-century dwarf activist who was among the first to fight against slavery and animal cruelty

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David Lester is the co-creator of the graphic novels The Listener and the award-winning 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.David Lester is the co-creator of the graphic novels The Listener and the award-winning 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike. His poster of anti-war protester Malachi Ritscher was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. His many books include The Slave Ship, The Amistad Rebellion and The Fearless Benjamin Lay. He has produced a film, Ghosts of Amistad, with director Tony Buba, and written a play, The Return of Benjamin Lay, with playwright Naomi Wallace. He lives in Pittsburgh.Paul Buhle is the author or editor of more than three-dozen books. Formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, he produces radical comics today. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Lester
• Con la collaborazione di: David Lester (Illustrazione), Paul Buhle (Editore), Buhle Paul (Editore), Marcus Rediker (Editore), Rediker Marcus (Editore)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.04.2023
• EAN: 9781804293478
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-347-8
• Pagine: 120
• Categorie: Narrativa > Fumetti, cartoni, humour, satira; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Religious, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Quaker, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction, Early 18th century c 1700 to c 1750, C 1700 To C 1800, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History, Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery