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    John Woolman (October 19, 1720 (O.S.)/October 30, 1720 (N.S.)– October 7, 1772) was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early...
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  • The Journal of John Woolman is an autobiography by John Woolman which was published posthumously in 1774 by Joseph Crukshank, a Philadelphia Quaker printer...
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  • John Woolman School (JWS) was a private boarding Quaker high school founded in 1963 in Nevada City, California. It operated full-time until 2001, when...
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  • entrepreneur Harry Woolman (1909–1996), stunt driver John Woolman (1720–1772), American religious leader and social activist Mary Schenck Woolman (1860–1940)...
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    Mary Raphael Schenck Woolman (April 26, 1860 – August 1, 1940) was an American educator known for her advocacy of vocational education and consumer education...
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    exemplified by the testimonies of Benjamin Lay, Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, and this resulted in an abolition movement among Friends. Nine of the...
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    Arthur; Hammerton, J.A., eds. (10 June 2004). "The World's Greatest Books: John Woolman Journal". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 21 February 2018. Penn, William...
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    the promotion by concerned members such as John Woolman in the early 18th century changed things. Woolman was a farmer, retailer, and tailor from New...
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    as William Burling, Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford, William Southby, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet. Benezet was particularly influential, inspiring...
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    world, founded in 1689. Woolman Semester, Nevada City, California, one-semester program open to grades 11–13, formerly John Woolman School Note: This section...
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    resisters have been violent revolutionaries like John Adams and pacifist nonresistants like John Woolman; communists like Karl Marx and capitalists like...
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  • miles east of the town of Columbus. His father was a first cousin to John Woolman, the renowned Quaker minister. The family moved to a farm at Colestown...
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  • Jordan. She attended Marin Academy in San Rafael, California, and the John Woolman School in Nevada City, California. Otis ran away from home at 16. A year...
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  • of John Woolman, New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 511. Judy Hynes: The Descendants of John and Elizabeth (Woolman) Borton(Mount Holly, NJ: John Woolman...
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  • guru (b. 1666) 1747 – Giulia Lama, Italian painter (b. 1681) 1772 – John Woolman, American preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720) 1787 – Henry Muhlenberg...
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    Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Nat Turner David Walker William Wilberforce John Woolman The Emancipator (1819–20): founded in Jonesboro, Tennessee in 1819 by...
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    the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania, including Benjamin Lay and John Woolman. His reasons for vegetarianism were based on health, ethics, and economy:...
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  • ISBN 978-3-7447-1890-5. John William Fletcher, The Works of the Reverend John Fletcher, vol. 2 (New York: B. Waugh and T. Mason, 1833), p. 495. Wesley, John (1872). The...
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    recorded in 1779. John Woolman Memorial was constructed in the late 1700s on a portion of an orchard that had belonged to Woolman. The pop punk band...
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  • The Woolman Semester was a semester school focused on the intersections of peace, social justice, and sustainability. The school operated from the Spring...
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    to the poor and oppressed. On the other hand, some Friends, such as John Woolman, gave up much of their wealth and economic position when they felt it...
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  • Social Witness (QPSW) the corresponding Quaker department in Britain John Woolman College of Active Peace Reverend Sun Myung Moon of Universal Peace Federation...
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    Abolition of slavery timeline Anthony Benezet John Woolman Thomas Paine Benjamin Rush Benjamin Lundy John Greenleaf Whittier Frances Harper Pennsylvania...
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    for Sufferers (A3) Richard Sellar (A4) The good ship 'Woodhouse' (A5) John Woolman (A6) Conscientious objection (A7) Manchester Conference 1895 (A8) Oaths...
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    disapproval of the slave trade. Three Quaker abolitionists, Benjamin Lay, John Woolman, and Anthony Benezet, devoted their lives to the abolitionist effort...
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  • century. Calvinism follows the theological traditions set down by John Calvin, John Knox and other Reformation-era theologians. Calvinists differ from...
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    Other Liberty ships lost to mines after the end of the war include John Woolman, Calvin Coolidge, Cyrus Adler, and Lord Delaware. On April 16, 1947,...
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    of slavery did not develop for almost a century. In the 18th century John Woolman began to stir the conscience of Friends concerning the owning of slaves...
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    Prior to the American Revolution, a small group of Quakers, including John Woolman and Anthony Benezet, persuaded their fellow members of the Religious...
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    William Penn Robert Pleasants Bayard Rustin Jessamyn West John Greenleaf Whittier John Woolman Meetings and other groups Yearly Meeting Monthly Meeting...
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