Rev Weeks on Wesley and Slavery

Rev Weeks on Wesley and Slavery

Rev. David Weeks of the New Room in Bristol discusses John Wesley and slavery. In 1774, John Wesley wrote a tract called "Thoughts on Slavery" that went into four editions in two years. In it, he attacked the Slave Trade and the slave-trader with considerable passion and proposed a boycott of slave-produced sugar and rum. In August 1787, he wrote to the Abolition Committee to express his support. In 1788, when the abolition campaign was at its height, he preached a sermon in Bristol, one of the foremost slave trading ports. In those days, an anti-slavery sermon could not be preached without considerable personal risk to the preacher and a disturbance broke out.
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