New AMS book: Geoffrey Plank's John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom

Professor Geoffrey Plank’s new book John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom is now available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Christopher Brown of Columbia University describes it as “a carefully researched and quietly brilliant work that provides a genuinely new perspective on a familiar figure in the history of antislavery. Plank finds in Woolman not only an early opponent of slavery but also an ardent critic of most every facet of commercial life in the Delaware Valley and, more generally, the British Empire.”

Prof. Plank will be giving talks on his book on the following dates:

• At the Woodbrooke Quaker Studies Centre in Birmingham, England on the evening of Wednesday, September 26
• At Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania on the evening of Thursday, October 4
• At the Pendle Hill Quaker Conference Center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania on Sunday, October 7
• At Haverford College in Pennsylvania on Monday, October 8 - see http://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/206361
• At the Friends House in London on the evening of Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

More details will be posted as they become available.

UPDATE 16/07/2012

Geoff Plank has added two more events to the schedule of his early October trip to the Philadelphia area.  He will be giving the following talks connected to his new biography of John Woolman:

• “The Other Woolmans” at Swarthmore College on Thursday evening, October 4, and at Mount Holly, New Jersey Quaker Meeting House at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 6
• “John Woolman and the Utility of History” at the Pendle Hill Quaker Conference Center on Sunday, October 7
• “The Other Family living with the Woolmans” at Haverford College at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, October 8. 
• Additionally he will be presenting a paper drawing on his new work related to his current research (the paper is tentatively entitled “Sheep, Thomas Tryon, and the English Empire”  at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies on the afternoon of Friday, October 5.