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John Woolman's Journal
John Woolman
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My Employer having a Negro Woman, sold her, and desired me to write a Bill of Sale, the Man being waiting who bought her: The Thing was sudden; and, though[Pg 27] the Thoughts of writing an Instrument of Slavery for one of my Fellow-creatures felt uneasy, yet I remembered I was hired by the Year, that it was my Master who directed me to do it, and that it was an elderly Man, a Member of our Society, who bought her; so, through Weakness, I gave way, and wrote; but, at the executing it, I was so afflicted in my Mind, that I said, before my Master and the Friend, that I believed Slave-keeping to be a Practice inconsistent with the Christian Religion: This in some Degree abated my Uneasiness; yet, as often as I refle. . . Read More
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Interesting to contrast Woolman's approach to life with that of Ben Franklin's -- as Woolman was a firm believer in God's plan for mankind, and His touch of providence in all human affairs, he was wont to submit to ill circumstances that befell him, choosing to view them as divine reproofs. He wasn'
Imagine you have just discovered a time capsule into the past. But the contents aren't just from anyone, but they are somebody who was a great writer and someone who also has an endearing character. That is sort of what it felt like for me as I read through this book. Before picking this book up I h
The Journal of John Woolman gives us a look into the mind of a Quaker in the years just prior to the American Revolution.
The language is old fashioned and could easily be parodied today but if we focus on the substance and meaning of Woolman's writing rather than its quaint form, we can see the hea
Why I kept reading this autobiography even though at times it seemed redundant was to discover that the turning point for an individual is also the turning point of a movement. Let me explain: Not only did he have a religious conversion, something he writes about in the early pages of the narrative,
John Woolman cries way too much.
Every other page it seems he is crying for joy or sadness or asking the big fella upstairs to give him some strength.
While he does have some excellent commentary on life in the 18th century American colonies and some great arguments against slavery through the philoso