1774 JOHN WESLEY. Thoughts Upon Slavery. First Edition of Landmark Work! Pentecostal that Africans were uncivilized

that Africans were uncivilized

Christian burial

There is note that he was furloughed early in 1857 in the rear of the Bible

one of the few translations itself considered an original masterpiece of literature

1774 JOHN WESLEY. Thoughts Upon Slavery. First Edition of Landmark Work! Pentecostal that Africans were uncivilizedPeople often forget Wesley's influence on the subject of abolition. In England, his final letter, written from his death bed, was addressed to William Wilberforce. In it, he urged him to wrestle devils and men to remove the blight and scandal of slavery from the land. And in 1774, he penned his first work devoted exclusively to the subject. It was quickly reprinted in Philadelphia [where Benjamin Franklin was working with the first Anti Slavery