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Date: 1785
"In fetters confined Our body complains, / Oppress'd is our mind , With heavier chains."
preview | full record— Wesley, Charles (1707-1788)
Date: February 3, 1788
"The spirit of the Gospel 'proclaims liberty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound:' but these men rivet the chains of slavery; 'the iron enters into the Negro's soul,' while while his mind is left in all the darkness of ignorance, without one ray of those comforts ...
preview | full record— Agutter, William (1758-835)