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But, again, we beg pardon, and entreat the earth of Virginia to lie light upon the remains of John Woolman; for he was an Israelite, indeed, in whom there was no guile.
The influence of the life and labors of John Woolman has by no means been confined to the religious society of which he was a member. It may be traced wherever a step in the direction of emancipation has been taken in this country or in Europe.
When Dunbar sings his songs, or DuBois speaks in the tones of scholar and poet, we all listen. The great emancipators of the successive generations, Woolman, Lundy, Channing, Mrs.
Pierre's symposium of The Coffee-House of Surat, to the confessions of faith of all sects and schools of philosophy, Christian and pagan, and gather from them the consoling truth that our Father has nowhere left his children without some witness of Himself. She loved the old mystics, and lingered with curious interest and sympathy over the writings of Bohme, Swedenborg, Molinos, and Woolman.
It was published to aid the antislavery cause, but in describing the condition of Negroes the author gave some educational statistics. Memorials of a Southern Planter. TOWER, REVEREND PHILO. Slavery Unmasked. WOOLMAN, JOHN. Journal of John Woolman, with an Introduction by John G. Whittier. JEFFERSON, THOMAS. Letters of Thomas Jefferson to Abbé Grégoire, M.A. Julien, and Benjamin Banneker.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, with Remarks on their Economy. Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom. He recorded a few important facts about the Negroes immediately before the Civil War. Woolman, John. Journal of John Woolman, with an Introduction by John G. Whittier. Boyce, Stanbury. Letters on the Emigration of the Negroes to Trinidad. Jefferson, Thomas.
Its members, living in the midst of slave-holding communities, were necessarily exposed to influences adverse to emancipation. I have already alluded to the epistle addressed to them by William Edmondson, and to the labors of John Woolman while travelling among them. In 1757 the Virginia Yearly Meeting condemned the foreign slave-trade.
The event justified his confidence; wherever he went hard hearts were softened, avarice and love of power and pride of opinion gave way before his testimony of love. The New England Yearly Meeting then, as now, was held in Newport, on Rhode Island. In the year 1760 John Woolman, in the course of a religious visit to New England, attended that meeting.
He spoke also of the significance of our prayers; of their deep value to our spirit in constantly renewing the sense of dependence; and further, since we "surely find that our prayers are answered, what blindness and fatuity there is in neglect or abuse of our privilege!" He was thinking of editing a new edition of John Woolman.
In this point of view, John Woolman found, in Anthony Benezet, the coadjutor, whom, of all others, the cause required. The former had occupied himself principally on the subject of Slavery. The latter went to the root of the evil, and more frequently attacked the Trade. The former chiefly confined his labours to America, and chiefly to those of his own Society there.
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