1833 JOHN HERSEY. An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery. Methodist, Liberia, &c. Spurgeon William Douglas

William Douglas

with Verses Illustrative of the Subjects

THE BODLEY HEAD

saith Saint James

1833 JOHN HERSEY. An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery. Methodist, Liberia, &c. Spurgeon William DouglasA superb work and one of the very earliest arguing explicitly, on the grounds of Christianity, for the immediate abolition of the slave trade. Hersey was a Methodist divine who was friends with the famous Liberian missionary, Melville Cox, himself traveled to and preached in the Liberian colony, was an advocate for Native American rights, etc., His own ministry was largely in Baltimore, where he traveled as a home missionary and worked both in white