Thoughts upon slavery
By: Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Slavery; Moral and ethical aspects; Slave trade; Slaves; Social conditions; History; Tracts
Other titles: Collection of religious tracts.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: A refutation of all arguments in favor of slavery, and outright condemnation of the practice. Proposes that only the discovery of America and the need for cheap labor brought back the slavery of "barbarous times" and refutes the idea that slavery rescues blacks from appalling conditions in Africa or improves their lot. He produces damning details of how Africans are procured and brought to America, attempting to show that slavery is inhumane, barbaric and cruel. He questions whether the system is defensible under any law, and denies that its cruelty justifies the economic advantage it gives the South. The tract ends with an appeal to those involved in the slave trade to quit the practice. Appended to Wesley's essay is a sermon extract from the Bishop of Gloucester.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

Includes "Extract of a Sermon preached by the Bishop of Gloucester, before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at their anniversary meeting, on the 21st of February, 1766" (p. 80-83).

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: Thoughts upon slavery / by John Wesley. [Philadelphia]: London printed: Re-printed in Philadelphia, with notes and sold by Joseph Crukshank, c1774. 83 p. ; 17 cm. This pamphlet was bound as part of the following collection: A collection of Religious tracts. Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, 1773 [i.e. 1778?].

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