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Sessions Book Trust, York, in association with Friends United Press, Richmond, Indiana, Published 1999. Paperback, viii, 148 pp.; 21 cm; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and maps.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy blue illustrated paper covers with white lettering on front cover and spine. Mild shelf and edge wear, light bumping and a small amount of peeling at corner tips. Binding tight. Personalized inscription by the author on half-title, signed "David" and dated 17 December 1999. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Biography of John Woolman (1720-1772), the Mount Holly, New Jersey tailor, Quaker minister and early anti-slavery voice, written for general readers and following the chronology of his Journal. Covers his refusal to write bills of sale for slaves, his 1763 journey to the Delaware at Wyalusing, his concern for animals and for simple, ethical consumption, and his final walking journey through England in 1772, ending with his death and burial in York. Illustrations include maps of Penn's Pennsylvania and New Jersey and of the English journey, Woolman's Mount Holly house, Hertford and York meeting houses, and his gravestone in the Bishophill burial ground. Front cover reproduces "John Woolman and the slave," after H. Williamson in A Quaker Calendar for 1914; rear cover reproduces a panel of the Quaker Tapestry at Kendal. David Sox (1936-2016), born in North Carolina, was both an Anglican priest and a Quaker, a former minor canon of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and a longtime teacher at the American School in London. Contents: Author's Note; Introduction; Part One: On the Banks of the Rancocas; Well-honed Conscience; The Institution of Slavery; New England and Marriage; Dreams and War; Out of Business and Travelling in the Ministry; Part Two: Like-Minded Friends; Part Three: 'The Birth of Social Conscience in its Present-day Form'; 'Some Instruction from Them'; Superfluities and True Harmony; Part Four: The Longest Journey of His Life; A Season of Silence; York Looks Like Home; Epilogue; Notes and References; Index; Map of John Woolman's travels on foot in England.