Thoughts upon Slavery

John Wesley wrote the pamphlet thirteen years before the London committee for abolition was formed. Its first part defines slavery. The second and third describe the part of Africa from which people were taken, and how they were procured, carried to America and treated there. The fourth argues that no human law can make this just. The fifth speaks directly to the captains and merchants engaged in the trade and to every owner of slaves.

It is a primary source for what the founder of Methodism taught on the subject, in his own words.