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The Journal of John Woolman

  
INTRODUCTORY NOTE

 1. 
Chapter I. 1720-1742. His Birth and Parentage — Some Account of the Operations of Divine Grace on his Mind in his Youth — His first Appearance in the Ministry — And his Considerations, while Young, on the Keeping of Slaves.
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Chapter II. 1743-1748. His first Journey, on a Religious Visit, in East Jersey — Thoughts on Merchandising, and Learning a Trade — Second Journey into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina — Third Journey through part of West and East Jersey — Fourth Journey through New York and Long Island, to New England — And his fifth Journey to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Lower Counties on Delaware.
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Chapter III. 1749-1756. His Marriage — The Death of his Father — His Journeys into the upper part of New jersey, and afterwards into Pennsylvania — Considerations on keeping Slaves, and Visits to the Families of Friends at several times and places — An Epistle from the General Meeting — His journey to Long Island — Considerations on Trading and on the Use of Spirituous Liquors and Costly Apparel — Letter to a Friend.
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Chapter IV. 1757, 1758. Visit to the Families of Friends at Burlington — Journey to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina — Considerations on the State of Friends there, and the Exercise he was under in Travelling among those so generally concerned in keeping Slaves, with some Observations on this Subject — Epistle to Friends at New Garden and Crane Creek — Thoughts on the Neglect of a Religious Care in the Education of the Negroes.
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Chapter V. 1757, 1758. Considerations on the Payment of a Tax laid for Carrying on the War against the Indians — Meetings of the Committee of the Yearly Meeting at Philadelphia — Some Notes on Thomas a Kempis and John Huss — The present Circumstances of Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey very Different from those of our Predecessors — The Drafting of the Militia in New Jersey to serve in the Army, with some Observations on the State of the Members of our Society at that time — Visit to Friends in Pennsylvania, accompanied by Benjamin Jones — Proceedings at the Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly Meetings in Philadelphia, respecting those who keep Slaves.
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Chapter VI. 1758, 1759. Visit to the Quarterly Meetings in Chester County — Joins Daniel Stanton and John Scarborough in a Visit to such as kept Slaves there — Some Observations on the Conduct which those should maintain who speak in Meetings for Discipline — More Visits to such as kept Slaves, and to Friends near Salem — Account of the Yearly Meeting in the Year 1759, and of the increasing Concern in Divers Provinces to Labor against Buying and Keeping Slaves — The Yearly Meeting Epistle — Thoughts on the Small-pox spreading, and on Inoculation.
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Chapter VII. 1760. Visit, in Company with Samuel Eastburn, to Long Island, Rhode Island, Boston, etc. — Remarks on the Slave-Trade at New-port; also on Lotteries — Some Observations on the Island of Nantucket.
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Chapter VIII. 1761, 1762. Visits Pennsylvania, Shrewsbury, and Squan — Publishes the Second Part of his Considerations on keeping Negroes — The Grounds of his appearing in some Respects singular in his Dress — Visit to the Families of Friends of Ancocas and Mount Holly Meetings — Visits to the Indians at Wehaloosing on the River Susquehanna.
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Chapter IX. 1763-1769. Religious Conversation with a Company met to see the Tricks of a Juggler — Account of John Smith's Advice and of the Proceeding of a Committee at the Yearly Meeting in 1764 — Contemplations on the Nature of True Wisdom — Visit to the Families of Friends at Mount Holly, Mansfield, and Burlington, and to the Meetings on the Sea-Coast from Cape May towards Squan — Some Account of Joseph Nichols and his Followers — On the different State of the First Settlers in Pennsylvania who de depended on their own Labor, compared with those of the Southern Provinces who kept Negroes — Visit to the Northern Parts of New Jersey and the Western Parts of Maryland and Pennsylvania; also to the Families of Friends at Mount Holly and several Parts of Maryland — Further Considerations on keeping Slaves, and his Concern for having been a Party to the Sale of One — Thoughts on Friends exercising Offices in Civil Government.
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Chapter X. 1769, 1770. Bodily Indisposition — Exercise of his Mind for the Good of the People in the West Indies — Communicates to Friends his Concern to visit some of those Islands — Preparations to embark — Considerations on the Trade to the West Indies — Release from his Concern and return Home — Religious Engagements — Sickness, and Exercise of his Mind therein."
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Chapter XI. 1772. Embarks at Chester, with Samuel Emlen, in a Ship bound for London — Exercise of Mind respecting the Hardships of the Sailors — Considerations on the Dangers of training Youth to a Seafaring Life — Thoughts during a Storm at Sea — Arrival in London.
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Chapter XII. 1772. Attends the Yearly Meeting in London — Then proceeds towards Yorkshire — Visits Quarterly and other Meetings in the Counties of Hertford, Warwick, Oxford, Nottingham, York, and Westmoreland — Returns to Yorkshire — Instructive Observations and Letters — Hears of the Decease of William Hunt — Some Account of him — The Author's Last Illness and Death at York.
  
THE DEATH OF JOHN WOOLMAN

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New York
1909
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