Woolman

And lurking among the thickets of Joya’s Neck is the mysterious Woolman, a feral black man who moves like the wind and spreads death like the devil.

Song Yet Sung by James McBride: Questions 2008

Until then, the magazine was content in its Olympian task of reporting trends and anointing “just the right coat, the smart shoe, the really elegant bag,” as Edna Woolman Chase, the Quaker-born editor who had worked at the magazine from 1895 to 1951, put it in her charming but forgotten autobiography, Always in Vogue (1956).

“Show the Dress” 2007

Until then, the magazine was content in its Olympian task of reporting trends and anointing “just the right coat, the smart shoe, the really elegant bag,” as Edna Woolman Chase, the Quaker-born editor who had worked at the magazine from 1895 to 1951, put it in her charming but forgotten autobiography, Always in Vogue (1956).

“Show the Dress” 2007

Until then, the magazine was content in its Olympian task of reporting trends and anointing “just the right coat, the smart shoe, the really elegant bag,” as Edna Woolman Chase, the Quaker-born editor who had worked at the magazine from 1895 to 1951, put it in her charming but forgotten autobiography, Always in Vogue (1956).

“Show the Dress” 2007

Thus, while it would have been profitable and perfectly lawful for him to see West Indian sugar and rum to the customers who came to his shop, Woolman refrained from doing so, because these things were the products of slave labor.

The Perennial Philosophy 2008

I also spent over a year reading through the journals of George Fox and John Woolman (part of my clearness process in becoming a member of the Ithaca Monthly Meeting of Friends).

Books Most Important to You 2006

What was the genesis of Woolman, a black man who lives in the woods and has a son whose heirs will include Martin Luther King, Jr.?

James McBride on 'Song Yet Sung' 2008

Later that year Woolman arrived for a Quaker meeting in York, sick with smallpox.

American Connections James Burke 2007

One of the first antislavery voices in America, Woolman spent three dangerous weeks living with Native Americans to find out what their life was like.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Later that year Woolman arrived for a Quaker meeting in York, sick with smallpox.

American Connections James Burke 2007