Wesley Corpus

To the Authors of the 'Monthly Review' Date: REIGATE, November 30, 1774. Source: The Letters of John Wesley (1774) Author: John Wesley --- GENTLEMEN,--I can easily believe what your correspondent affirms (Review, October 1774), that there are some slave-holders who have a little humanity left, and that the Georgian laws sell the blood of one slave only to each master, and prescribe the instruments wherewith he is to torture the rest. What is still the general spirit of American slave-holders is observed in a letter from Philadelphia now before me. As a farther influence of the inhumanity with which the poor Negroes are treated, I will add two advertisements published in the public papers, one of Virginia, the other of North Carolina:-- From the Williamsburg Gazette 'Run away on the 10th instant, a lusty Negro, named Bob---.The said fellow is outlawed, and I will give ten pounds reward for his head severed from his body, and forty shillings if brought alive.' From one of the North Carolina newspapers. 'Ran away last November, from the subscriber, a Negro fellow, named Yeb; aged thirty-six. As he is outlawed, I will pay twenty pounds currency to any person who shall produce his head severed from his body, and five pounds if brought home alive. John Mosely.' --I am, gentlemen, Your very humble servant.