LEADER 04418nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910810747303321 005 20211005032621.0 010 $a1-283-89705-9 010 $a0-8122-0712-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207125 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065395 035 $a(OCoLC)823826508 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642176 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000631123 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11392393 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631123 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10590787 035 $a(PQKB)10568956 035 $a(OCoLC)794700789 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17653 035 $a(DE-B1597)449508 035 $a(OCoLC)979684878 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207125 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441841 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642176 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420955 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441841 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065395 100 $a20110802d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Woolman's path to the peaceable kingdom$b[electronic resource] $ea Quaker in the British Empire /$fGeoffrey Plank 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4405-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Past Ages: History --$tChapter 2. Deserts and Lonely Places: Social Diversion and Solitary Meditation --$tChapter 3. More Than Was Required: Quaker Meetings --$tChapter 4. The Road to Large Business: Family and Work --$tChapter 5. A Dark Gloominess Hanging over the Land: Slavery --$tChapter 6. Men in Military Posture: The Seven Years' War --$tChapter 7. Not in Words Only: Conspicuous Instructive Behavior --$tChapter 8. The Deep: Crossing the Sea --$tChapter 9. A Messenger Sent from the Almighty: England and Death --$tEpilogue --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aThe abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed in his local community in colonial New Jersey and was alert as well to events throughout the British Empire. Responding to the situation as he saw it, Woolman developed a comprehensive critique of his fellow Quakers and of the imperial economy, became one of the most emphatic opponents of slaveholding, and helped develop a new form of protest by striving never to spend money in ways that might encourage slavery or other forms of iniquity. Drawing on the diaries of contemporaries, personal correspondence, the minutes of Quaker meetings, business and probate records, pamphlets, and other sources, John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom shows that Woolman and his neighbors were far more engaged with the problems of inequality, trade, and warfare than anyone would know just from reading the Quaker's own writings. Although he is famous as an abolitionist, the end of slavery was only part of Woolman's project. Refusing to believe that the pursuit of self-interest could safely guide economic life, Woolman aimed for a miraculous global transformation: a universal disavowal of greed. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aQuakers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAbolitionists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aSociety of Friends$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 615 0$aQuakers 615 0$aAbolitionists 615 0$aSociety of Friends$xHistory 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 676 $a289.6092 676 $aB 700 $aPlank$b Geoffrey Gilbert$f1960-$01621915 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810747303321 996 $aJohn Woolman's path to the peaceable kingdom$93955457 997 $aUNINA