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Benjamin Lay, the cave-dwelling abolitionist

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

A four-foot-seven Quaker who lived in a cave near Abington in the 1730s, grew his own food and wore only what he could make, so as to touch nothing made by a slave. He waged guerrilla theater on the slaveholders of Philadelphia, once splashing fake blood across a meeting, and was cast out of the Quakers for it, then vindicated by history two centuries later. One of the first radical abolitionists in America, and he really did live in a cave.

The ground it haunts

Near Abington, north of Philadelphia (Montgomery County, PA). Source: TRUE: a documented historical figure who lived in a cave. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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