Synopsis

John Woolman’s lectures, writings, and personal influence bore little fruit in his own time. But he and his devout Quaker associates were the very first in eighteenth-century America to formulate a well-defined case for the abolition of slavery; his influence on posterity was vastly greater than on his contemporaries. As an itinerant preacher, Woolman opposed military conscription and taxation and wholeheartedly condemned “the iniquitous practice of dealing in Negroes.” Part of the publisher’s “Great American Thinkers” series.

From the front cover: “An eloquent and revealing portrait of an early American Quaker humanitarian – one of the first white Americans to oppose slavery.”