All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

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.