On a Wednesday, John Woolman wrote a sales contract for the sale of a slave—a human person—from one person to another. The year was about 1940, maybe a year or two later, about 3 decades before the Revolutionary War and the birth of the United States. Woolman was young, married, trying to find his way in the world. One of the things he did to make money…
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