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John woolman and anthony benezet quotes

          Quaker John Woolman is cited giving five principles that oppose slavery....

          Benezet definitely quotes in his own writings.

        1. With friend and fellow Quaker John Woolman, Benezet convinced the Philadelphia [Quaker] Yearly Meeting to take an official position against the practice of.
        2. Quaker John Woolman is cited giving five principles that oppose slavery.
        3. He quotes the French philoso- pher Montesquieu to show that slavery is harmful to both the slave and the master.
        4. Brother, –84, quote on Woolman's journal was published as An Extract from John.

          5. Quakers in the World

          Anti-Slavery: Some Quaker Leaders

          This list of Quaker men and women illustrates the variety of Quaker contributions to the abolition of slavery - organisational, financial, academic and activist.  Whatever their input, all of them shared a deep concern to right the terrible injustices of slavery.

          The work still continues, as slavery persists in modern forms.

          Benjamin Lay (1677-1759) and John Woolman (1720-1772) campaigned primarily for abolition amongst the Quaker community. Woolman was deeply principled and operated with love and concern for all parties as his means of coercion.

          Lay was an eccentric, “a hermit prone to action-statements against slavery”. Neither was a comfortable guest to Friends who were in any complicit in slavery.

          Anthony Benezet (1713-1784), authored books on conditions in Africa.

          Granville Sharp used his volume published in 1762, and Thomas Clarkson credited his book on Guinea (1771) as drawing him to the anti-slave