约翰·伍尔曼日记-The Journal of John Woolman:
主要随笔在18世纪的贵格会牧师约翰伍尔曼后期起行和整个北美殖民地讲道。他的日记，一个公认的美国经典，塑造一个比较敏感的道德圣弗朗西斯的史怀哲，以及他敏锐的社会不公直接向我们讲富裕，社会大众越来越多的分歧。伍尔曼的散文广泛影响了美国社会的思想，以及在英国，在那里他受到尊敬的羔羊和科尔里奇。
教授莫尔顿的版伍尔曼的主要作品 - 基于对美国和英国的所有相关手稿彻底检查 - 是第一个反映与忠诚和学术准确性伍尔曼的最终意图。
只有这样的杂志版本包括伍尔曼的税收拒绝为反战抗议和公民抗命的形式整个讨论。还包括“抗辩为穷人服务”和“思考保持黑人的”关于奴隶制的最早的攻击之一。
JOHN WOOLMAN was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York,England, in 1772. He Was the child of Quaker parents, and from his youth was azealous member of the Society of Friends. His "Journal," published posthumouslyin 1774, sufficiently describes his way of life and the spirit in which he didhis work; but his extreme humility prevents him from making clear theimportance of the part he played in the movement against slaveholding among theQuakers.
　　During the earlier years of their settlement in America, the Friends tookpart in the traffic in slaves with apparently as little hesitation as their fellow colonists; but in 1671 George Fox, visiting the Barbados, was struck bythe inconsistency of slave-holding with the religious principles of hisSociety. His protests, along with those of others, led to the growth of anagitation which spread from section to section. In 1742, Woolman, then a youngclerk in the employment of a storekeeper in New Jersey, was asked to make out abill of sale for a negro woman; and the scruples which then occurred to himwere the beginning of a life-long activity against the traffic. Shortlyafterward he began his laborious foot-journeys, pleading everywhere with hisco-religionists, and inspiring others to take up the crusade. The result of theagitation was that the various Yearly Meetings one by one decided thatemancipation was a religious duty; and within twenty years after Woolman-sdeath the practise of slavery had ceased in the Society of Friends. But hisinfluence did not stop there, for no small part of the enthusiasm of thegeneral emancipation movement is traceable to his labors.
　　His own words in this "Journal" of an extraordinary simplicity and charm,are the best expression of a personality which in its ardor, purity of motive,breadth of sympathy, and clear spiritual insight, gives Woolman a place amongthe uncanonized saints of America.