1833 JOHN HERSEY. An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery. Methodist, Liberia, &c. Spurgeon He was successor to Newton

He was successor to Newton and was also William Wilberforce's pastor

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1833 JOHN HERSEY. An Appeal to Christians, on the Subject of Slavery. Methodist, Liberia, &c. Spurgeon He was successor to NewtonA 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