[bksvol-discuss] Fw: please add to wish list
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
request from E.
>
> The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition
> by
> Thomas P. Slaughter
> From Publishers Weekly
> Starred Review. Not many today know about the New
> Jersey Quaker, mystic and social
> activist John Woolman (1720–1772). But William James, in
> The Varieties of Religious Experience
> , characterized Woolman as a saint. John
> Greenleaf Whittier called him the founding
> father of the abolitionist movement. As Slaughter (
> The Whiskey Rebellion
> ) shows in this superb narrative, it may be
> argued that the pious, simple-living
> Woolman—by rejecting not only slavery but also
> the accumulation of wealth, economic
> exploitation of all kinds and all forms of
> violence—created the prototype for every
> pacifist and nonconformist to come after. Woolman
> always dressed simply in clothes
> he stitched himself, white clothes meant to mark
> him as a man of God. He advocated
> his causes in lectures and sermons across the
> eastern United States and England (where
> he died of smallpox) and through extensive
> writings. He made a point of owning nothing
> he did not need and giving away every and
> anything he could not use. In our own age
> of conspicuous consumption, the complex soul
> Slaughter so ably and beautifully resurrects
> is full of contemporary relevance as an example of
> principled living.
>
> Tom Slaughter has written a magnificent book about a unique
> American. The
> narrative is as gripping as a suspense story—and
> simultaneously heartbreaking. I’ve
> read a lot about Woolman over the years, but
> nothing can compare to the insights
> Slaughter offers here. What a beautiful book!” —Thomas
> Fleming, author of
> The Perils of Peace: America’s Struggle for Survival
> after Yorktown
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