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From: "L.A.McGinnis" <>
Subject: Re: The Journel of John Woolman
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 14:03:12 -0500


Curious -
was excited to read about this book - but this URL is
"not findable" on-line for some reason; is this journal(s), book(s)
available at some libraries somewhere or are these published today - sure
would like to have the chance to peruse these -

with all curiousity and fascination,
a
fellow researcher,

anne-ology

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/8739/index.html

>
> Much thanks to Joy Roos for posting the e-mail, Basic Quaker Information
> today, 6/12/99.
> I opened up the link: Great Britain Quakers and took a look at the link:
> the Journel of John Woolman:
> <http://www.mindspring.com/~strecorsoc/woolman/w0t.html>; as well as the
> link to the writings of Ann Fell. I then ended up printing out sections
> (almost used an entire printer cartirdge) of the Journel and Ann Fell's
> essay: "Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the
> Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus".
> ca. 1666 or 1667. The reason was that John Woolman between 1743-1772,
> very directly focused on the slavery issue, paying taxes, good
> relationships with the Indians, excess money; he also gave many
> descriptions of the suffering with small pox, decriptions of his journeys,
> the geography and hazards of the trip to many of the Quaker meetings from
> Pennsylvania to Virginia, the sea voyage to England and cleanliness and
> clothing in England. I found it an excellent source of information for
> "putting one's self in another's shoes" 250 years ago. I also found that
> the philosophy and religious reflection very silmilar to what had been
> passed down to me today and even reflective of why I worship at the church
> I do because of the manner that social injustices are addressed
> (interestingly enough a denomination that was the cause of many problems
> for the Quakers 200-300 years ago).
> I want my children to read all or part of this as well as Ann Fell's essay
> on women speaking out. My daughter, my third child, will be leaving for
> college in August and will be attending a women's college, I want to send
> her with information that she may or may not look for during her studies,
> that states that people were addressing the slavery issue and women's
roles
> many years ago in much of the same thinking as people are today. I want
> her to have an appreciation of the hardships of travel, disease, living
> conditions, etc. that existed then and I think John Woolman's Journel is
an
> excellent source and it is a source that most likely is not commonly known
> when one is studying basic history. It is worth an hour"s time to look
at,
> plus the Journal mentions many Quakers that most of us are familiar with
> and/or related to. Susan Fisher McClure
>

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