An ‘execrable sum of all villainies’
John Wesley judged rightly when he described slavery in America (and by implication, that of other parts of the New World) and the British slave trade as ‘that execrable sum of all villainies’.
History Professor Michael Haykin
Now, it is intriguing to note that he made this judgment not long after the death of his good friend George Whitefield, who had been entangled in the introduction of slavery into Georgia.
