John Woolman Quote

Though I felt uneasy at the thought of writing an instrument of slavery... through weakness I gave way and wrote it; but. said before my master and the Friend that I believed slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet. I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience.

Journal (1774)