{"product_id":"john-woolmans-path-to-the-peaceable-kingdom-a-quaker-in-the-british-empire-9780812244052","title":"John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a Quaker saint, an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed in his local community in colonial New Jersey and was alert as well to events throughout the British Empire. Responding to the situation as he saw it, Woolman developed a comprehensive critique of his fellow Quakers and of the imperial economy, became one of the most emphatic opponents of slaveholding, and helped develop a new form of protest by striving never to spend money in ways that might encourage slavery or other forms of iniquity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the diaries of contemporaries, personal correspondence, the minutes of Quaker meetings, business and probate records, pamphlets, and other sources, \u003ci\u003eJohn Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e shows that Woolman and his neighbors were far more engaged with the problems of inequality, trade, and warfare than anyone would know just from reading the Quaker's own writings. Although he is famous as an abolitionist, the end of slavery was only part of Woolman's project. Refusing to believe that the pursuit of self-interest could safely guide economic life, Woolman aimed for a miraculous global transformation: a universal disavowal of greed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Plank\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812244052\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/26\/2013 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeoffrey Plank is Professor in the School of American Studies, University of East Anglia. He is author of An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia and Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire, both also available from University of Pennsylvania Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44216459853939,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":80.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_03b360ac-9ea8-4013-b1c7-6cae7dbcae1e.jpg?v=1767791216","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/john-woolmans-path-to-the-peaceable-kingdom-a-quaker-in-the-british-empire-9780812244052","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}