John Woolman was Kind of a Dick

Having just finished reading The Journal of John Woolman , I was struck by a few different things, the foremost: just how early an anti-slavery campaigner Woolman was. I knew that the guy wrote about the evils of slavery around the time of the American Revolution. What I did not realize is that Woolman actually died in 1774, 2 years before The Declaration of Independence was even signed. To say…