John Wesley spent the latter half of his ministry working for the abolition of the slave trade. In 1774 he wrote "Thoughts Upon Slavery" where he made his stance against the slave trade very clear.
"Are you a man? Then you should have a human heart. . . . Do you never feel another's pain? Have you no sympathy . . . no sense of human woe, no pity for the miserable? When you saw the flowing eyes, the heaving breasts, or the bleeding sides and tortured limbs of your fellow-creatures, was [were] you a stone, or a brute? . . . Whatever you lose, lose not your soul: Nothing can countervail that loss. Immediately quit the horrid trade: At all events, be an honest man."
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