In the stillness of a Quaker meeting house, Benjamin Lay—shepherd, sailor, and one of history’s first revolutionary abolitionists—rises from the grave nearly 300 years after his death. Fierce and unpredictable, the 4-foot-tall activist once again confronts the powerful forces of slavery, demanding to be readmitted to the Quaker community that cast him out for his radical beliefs. As he pushes the boundaries of faith, morality, and protest, Lay teeters on the edge of playing God himself. How far will he go to make his prophetic vision heard, knowing the cost of defiance?

Spanning centuries and continents, The Return of Benjamin Lay is a vivid, hallucinatory journey into the mind of a forgotten radical whose fight for justice was far ahead of his time.