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| If the white people retain a resolution to prefer their outward prospects of gain to all other considerations, and do not act conscientiously toward [slaves] as fellow-creatures, I believe that burden will grow heavier and heavier, until times change in a way disagreeable to us. |
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| 1720–72, American Quaker leader, b. near Mt. Holly, N.J. Originally a tailor and shopkeeper, Woolman was recorded a minister (1743) by the Burlington, N.J., Meeting. Thereafter he made many journeys throughout the colonies, preaching and advancing the antislavery cause.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Exemplifies the inner life of the Society of Friends and the first crusade against slavery in the Americas. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. I, Part 2.
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Section by Woodbridge Riley from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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