John Saffin

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John Saffin (1626-1710) was a Boston merchant, best known for his A Brief and Candid Answer to Samuel Sewall's The Selling of Joseph.[1]

[edit] Biography

Born in Somerset, England, John Saffin moved to the American Continent as a young boy, and settled in Scituate, Massachusetts.

After a career as a shrewd merchant in Boston, he moved to Bristol, Rhode Island in 1687. The rest of his life was marked by his conflict with Samuel Sewall over the issue of slavery. [2]

[edit] Bibliography

  • A Brief and Candid Answer, 1700
  • John Saffin, His Book (1665-1708): A Collection of Various Matters of Divinity, Law, & State Affairs Epitomiz'd Both in Verse and Prose, published posthumously in 1928 [3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Peter Kolchin, "American Slavery", Penguin History, paperback edition, 64
  2. ^ http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/colonial/saffin_jo.html
  3. ^ http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/saffin.html


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