The Journal Of John Woolman (LARGE PRINT EDITION) - Hardcover

Woolman, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1169888496 ISBN 13: 9781169888494

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

John Woolman (1720-1772) was a North American merchant, tailor, journalist and itinerant Quaker preacher, and an early abolitionist in the colonial era. Based in Mount Holly, New Jersey, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he traveled through frontier areas of British North America to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against slavery and the slave trade, cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, and conscription; from 1755 during the French and Indian War, he urged tax resistance to deny support to the military. In 1772, Woolman traveled to England, where he urged Quakers to support abolition of slavery. Woolman published numerous essays, especially against slavery. He kept a journal throughout his life; it was published posthumously, entitled The Journal of John Woolman (1774). Included in Volume I of the Harvard Classics since 1909, it is considered a prominent American spiritual work. The Journal has been continuously in print since 1774, published in numerous editions; the most recent scholarly edition was published in 1989.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1169888496
• ISBN 13: 9781169888494
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Whitney Janet