The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . Georgianiad^ emancipation impossible, in NorthCarolina an act waspassed in the year 1786,by which, with the viewof discouraging the im-portation of slaves, aduty of £5 per head wasplaced on all negroeswho should be 1783 Delaware,Mary-land, and Virginia hadremoved all restrictionson emancipation, andhad prohibite
The illustrated history of Methodism [electronic resource]; the story of the origin and progress of the Methodist church, from its foundation by John Wesley to the present dayWritten in popular style and illustrated by more than one thousand portraits and views of persons . Georgianiad^ emancipation impossible, in NorthCarolina an act waspassed in the year 1786,by which, with the viewof discouraging the im-portation of slaves, aduty of £5 per head wasplaced on all negroeswho should be 1783 Delaware,Mary-land, and Virginia hadremoved all restrictionson emancipation, andhad prohibited the fur-ther introduction ofslaves, and New Jerseyfollowed their years before this date Pennsylva-nia had dealt more liberally with thequestion by enacting that all children ofslaves born thenceforth should be 1785 New York, besides declaring thechildren of slaves free, offered them theprivileges enjoyed by other legislation, until 1788, was thusdistinctly in the direction of limiting orabolishing slavery. It was only among a certain section ofBritish statesmen and churchmen thatthe anti-slavery sentiment at this timewas strong. So late as 1799 the DordChancellor Thurlow, a man of a religiousturn of mind and a hymn-writer, re-. The Illustrated History of Methodism. 273 sisted with all his might, andwith considerable acerbity, aproposal to abolish the slave-trade; and his sovereign heart-ily supported him. Wilber-force and his associates, whowere, fifty years later, to bringabout the abolition of slaveryin the empire, had at this timea long uphill struggle beforethem. Doctor Coke had come outwith violent anti-slavery sen-timents, and was prepared toforce the issue. Asbury, onthe other hand, who realized the bitterfeelings such a campaign would arouse,was rather disposed to leave the questionalone. The Conference, however, pro-ceeded to pass the following regulations:Members of the society were enjoined totake full advantage of all legal pr
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