Item #14698 A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, GOSPEL LABOURS, AND CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCES, OF THAT FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, JOHN WOOLMAN. John Woolman.

A JOURNAL OF THE LIFE, GOSPEL LABOURS, AND CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCES, OF THAT FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST, JOHN WOOLMAN.

Philadelphia: T.E. Chapman, 1837.

396p. Bound in early leather with gilt spine title. Moderate foxing and with insect marks on rear pastedown, all quite sound. Item #14698

Includes both parts of his famous essay, 'Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes', first published in 1754 and 1762.
"Few will quarrel with the dictum that the honor of making the first modern formulation of an explicit purpose to procure the abolition of slavery 'belongs to the Quakers, and in particular to that Apostle of Human Freedom, John Woolman'. A.N. Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas. 1933. p. 29.
"An Autobiographical masterpiece, rivalled [sic] in 18th century America only by that of Franklin." Howes 669.
Blockson 9589; Sabin 105202.

Price: $125.00

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