John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire

by Geoffrey Gilbert Plank and Geoffrey Plank

Book Overview

The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a Quaker saint, an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed in his local community in colonial New Jersey and was alert as well to events throughout the British Empire. Responding to the situation as he saw it, Woolman developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244052
• ISBN13: 9780812244052
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"