By Karol Kovalovich Weaver     Prophet Against Slavery: Benjamin Lay: A Graphic Novel, by David Lester and accompanied with essays by Marcus Rediker and Paul Buhle, tells the story of eighteenth-century radical abolitionist Benjamin Lay. Born in England, Lay, a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), pursued various trades, working as a shepherd, a glover, a sailor, a merchant, and a writer. He was a little person with dwarfism and kyphosis (latter is “exaggerated, forward rounding of the upper back;”). His travels as a sailor, the time he spent in Barbados, and his residence in the colony of Pennsylvania exposed… Read More