1774 JOHN WESLEY. Thoughts Upon Slavery. First Edition of Landmark Work! Pentecostal saying unto thee

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His secretary would take down his sermon long-hand as he preached [which

1774 JOHN WESLEY. Thoughts Upon Slavery. First Edition of Landmark Work! Pentecostal saying unto theePeople 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