[10] Ibid., 424.
[11] Ibid., 705.
[12] Matlock, L. C., The Anti-slavery Struggle and Triumph in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 17.
[13] American Church History, XI, 1.
[14] Tyerman, L., Life of Whitefield, II, 272. Whitefield is reported as having said: “I should think myself highly favored if I could purchase a good number of slaves in order to make their lives more comfortable and lay a foundation for bringing up their posterity in the nature and admonition of the Lord.” He died owning 75 slaves. American Church History, XI, 5.
[15] Jernegan, op. cit., 515.
[16] Matlock, op. cit., 17.
[17] Minutes of the Methodist Episcopal Conferences, 1773-1813, I, 5-6.
[18] The first paragraph of this law shows the general tenor of these regulations:
1. Every member of our society who has slaves in his possession shall, within twelve months after notice given to him by the Assistant (which the assistants are required immediately, and without any delay, to give to their respective circuits), legally execute and record an instrument whereby he emancipates and sets free every slave in his possession who is between the ages of forty and forty-five immediately, or at farthest when they arrive at the age of forty-five; and every slave who is between the ages of twenty-five and forty immediately, or at farthest at the explication of five years from the date of said instrument; every slave who is between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-five immediately or at farthest when they arrive at the age of thirty; and every slave under the age of twenty as soon as they arrive at the age of twenty-five at farthest; and every infant born in slavery after the above-mentioned rules are complied with immediately on its birth. McTyeire, Holland M., History of Methodism, II, pp. 375-378.