John Woolman: The Conscientious Quaker Who Paved the Way for the Abolitionist Movement

from from FEE on 2020-10-19 15:00 (#59A5P)

Though forgotten today, he paved the way for abolitionists like Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce.

When Clarkson and eleven Quakers sat down at a print-shop table to create the Society for the Abolition in 1787, he was the man they thanked.

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