A Deal with the Devil: Pragmatic Mission and Early American Methodism’s Complicity with Slavery
Early American Methodism inherited a staunch abolitionist position from John Wesley. Bishops Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke strongly opposed slavery. Under their leadership, the early minutes and disciplines included a series of rules that required preachers to free their slaves and ameliorate the e...
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Seminary
2024
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The Asbury journal
Year: 2024, Volume: 79, Issue: 1, Pages: 9-28 |
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