Notes On the Proposed Abolition of Slavery in Virginia in 1785
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V. ) After the death of Dr. Coke, which took place in 1814, there was published at Dublin, in 1816, Extracts of the Journals of the late Rev. Thomas Coke, LL. D. ; comprising several Visits to North- America and the West-Indies ; his Tour through a Part of Ireland, and his nearly finished Voyage to Bombay in the East-Indies : To which is prefixed A Life of the Doctor. A copy of this book is in the Boston Public Library. 6 Under date of 13 August, 1776, Wesley wrote : — " I preached at Taunton, ...and afterwards . . . Went to Kingston. Here I found a clergyman, Dr. Coke, late a gentleman commoner of Jesus College, Oxford, who came twenty miles on purpose to meet me. I had much conversation with him ; and a union then began, which, I trust, shall never end. " (L. Tyerman's Life and Times of the Rev. John Wesley, iii. 214. ) 6 Wesley to go to the United States. Coke left England in Septem- ber. 1784, and reached New York the third of November. At once proceeding south, he made extensive tours in that section of the country; he ordained Asbury, as we have already seen; and on the fifth of April, 1785, he " dared for the first time to bear a public testimony against slavery, " and did " not find that more than one was offended.
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