John Woolman
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| Church | Religious Society of Friends |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 19, 1720 Province of New Jersey |
| Died | October 7, 1772 (aged 51) York, Kingdom of England |
| Buried | York, Kingdom of England |
| Denomination | Quaker |
| Parents |
Samuel Woolman (father) Elizabeth Burr (mother) |
| Spouse | Sarah Ellis (née Abbott) |
| Children | Mary |
| Occupation | Trade |
Samuel Woolman (father)
John Woolman (October 19, 1720 – October 7, 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.
John Woolman was born in 1720 into a family who were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). His father Samuel Woolman was a farmer. Their estate lay between Burlington and Mount Holly Township in the New Jersey colony, near the Delaware River. Woolman's maternal and paternal grandparents were early Quaker settlers in Burlington County, New Jersey.
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