I post this separately from Cindy's wish list so I can include the book description. Several folks in my meditation group like it a lot.
The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition by Thomas P. Slaughter From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Not many today know about the New Jersey Quaker, mystic and social
activist John Woolman (17201772). 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. Thenarrative 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 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
