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The Beautiful Soul of John Woolman, Apostle of Abolition. By Thomas P. Slaughter. (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008. 450 pp. Illustrations, note on sources, notes, index. $30.)
      John Woolman was born in 1720 in western New Jersey and was the grandson of Quaker immigrants who helped build the commercial agricultural economy of the eighteenth-century Delaware Valley. He had a fairly ordinary childhood: he attended school, labored on the family farm, and then, as a young adult, went to work for a shopkeeper. Some years later he abandoned his mercantile career, which in his generation was a chief route to wealth, and instead became a tailor. This trade, for an honest, hard-working man such as Woolman, garnered him a steady income, but no riches. . . .
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