Make the Case Your Own

In 1774, John Wesley recalled how a slave in Liverpool had asked his master how he would like it, if he and his family were uprooted and carried off to Africa as slaves. To his credit, the slave’s master immediately exclaimed that he would never buy another slave, and Wesley urged everyone involved in the slave industry to do likewise.

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