I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure.

John Woolman (October 19 1720 - October 7 1772) was a North American merchant tailor journalist and itinerant Quaker preacher and an early abolitionist in the colonial era. In 1772 Woolman traveled to England where he urged Quakers to support abolition of slavery.