Ben Lundy...
is known to some historians and those who study American Antebellum antislavery issues as one of the early Quaker abolitionists...
yet, upon closer examination, Lundy appears not just as an original abolitionists publisher and early Quaker antislavery advocate, of the early antebellum era, dating to 1815, well before Frederick Douglass was even able to speak and 15 yrs prior to William L Garrison being led into the movement by Lundy, in 1827...
but in reality, Lundy, in my view, was not just a man of his times fighting against a national sin, but a virtual pioneer of human rights worldwide. His work was done in such a manner and on such a different moral and spiritual plane, for his era in particular, that in many ways, he was over a 150 yrs ahead of his time or more.
As the new owner of the National Landmark home recognized by the U.S. Dept of Interior, Mr. Richard Olivito would like to focus on this part of Lundy's work and legacy, not just for the cause of studying and experiencing a great american abolitionist...but for his original work on human rights worldwide.
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