"Mr. Wesley, whose letter was read next, informed the committee of the great satisfaction which he also had experienced when he heard of their formation. He conceived that their design, while it would destroy the slave trade, would also strike at the root of the shocking abomination of slavery."
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John Wesley and John Emory, "The Works of the Reverend John Wesley", (1831), p. 238
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