biography
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| lived:
| (1720–72)
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| biography:
| Protestant preacher and reformer, born in Rancocas, New Jersey, USA. The son of a farmer, he received a Quaker education and became a Quaker in 1743. A tailor by trade, he turned to preaching and travelled for some 30 years through the colonies, and also in England, spreading Quaker views. An early advocate of the abolition of slavery, he also called for the prohibition of liquor sales to Indians. He died of smallpox while on a visit to England. His famous Journal, much reprinted, first appeared in 1774. |
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