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Reading this morning a tract wrote by a poor African, I was…
Quote byJohn Wesley · 1703–1791
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to William Wilberforce (24 February 1791), quoted in John Telford (ed.), The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. Vol. VIII: July 24, 1787, to February 24, 1791 (Epworth Press, 1960), p. 265.
English (original)
Reading this morning a tract wrote by a poor African, I was particularly struck by that circumstance, that a man who has a black skin, being wronged or outraged by a white man, can have no redress; it being a law in all our Colonies that the oath of a black against a white goes for nothing. What villany is this!
— John Wesley
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