John Woolman and his accomplishments on the abolishment of slavery

John Woolman was born in 1720 on the family farm on Rancocas Creek in New Jersey. 'He went to school with the other Quaker children and with Indian children in a schoolhouse twenty feet square.' ( Pamphlet printed several decades ago by the religious Education Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting} 'John Woolman had finished his schooling and had worked for several years on the family farm, found a place clerking in a little store in Mount …

…the safety, and the beauty of a life devoted to following the Heavenly Shepherd.'( Pamphlet). As we read these writings today, we realize how much he helped in guiding the thoughts and the struggle of the Religious Society of Friends. 'It was difficult to disregard a man who woreconspicuous white [unbleached] clothes rather than use dyes which had to be produced by slave labor. John Woolman was the gentle conscience of Quakerism.' (Pamphlet).