John Woolman

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John Woolman

Born on October 19, 1720, Burlington, NJ

John Woolman

John Woolman (b. New Jersey 1720; d. York, England 1772) addresses his fellow Quakers in Some Consideration of the Keeping of Negroes and exerts great influence in leading the Society of Friends to recognize the evil of slavery.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting appoints a committee in 1758 to visit those Friends still holding slaves. At the Yearly Meeting in London in 1772,

Woolman presents an anti-slavery certificate from Philadelphia. The London Yearly Meeting also issues a statement condemning slavery in its Epistle for the first time in 1754.

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Timeline

In his lifetime, Woolman did not succeed in eradicating slavery even within the Society of Friends in colonial America.However, his personal efforts helped change Quaker viewpoints during the period of the Great Awakening. In 1790.
after the American Revolutionary War, the Pennsylvania Society of Friends petitioned the United States Congress for the abolition of slavery.While unsuccessful at the national level, Quakers contributed to Pennsylvania's abolition of slavery.
In addition, in the first two decades after the war, they were active together with Methodist and Baptist preachers in the Upper South in persuading many slaveholders to manumit their slaves. The percentage of free people of color rose markedly during those decades, for instance, from less than one to nearly ten percent in Virginia.

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Accomplishments

Important Lesson

Some Important Lesson

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Famous Quotes

“All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.”

“About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible (John Woolman 10).”

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Conclusion

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