In the time of Samuel Sewall and John Woolman, the late 1600s through early 1700s, slavery seemed to be a less discussed topic. Having a slave was normal culturally, many people simply left the problems with slavery unquestioned. Those who did oppose slavery like Woolman and Sewall went against the common opinion. Woolman’s presents his argument in a very personal way. He believes that slavery is wrong because God would not want one man to have power over another for their entire life. He stood by his views when he chose not to write the wills of people who included their slaves in their documents. The fact that a person was being passed from one person to another like a possession irritated him and he would not go along with it. Sewall he
