"I would do anything that is in my power toward the extirpation of that trade which is a scandal not only to Christianity but humanity."
— John Wesley

January 1, 1970

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On the slave trade; letter to Henry Moore (14 March 1790), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VIII: July 24, 1787, to February 24, 1791 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 207