1841 JOHN STURGE. Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and the Civilization of Africa. John Wesley and the gift meant to

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God Glorified in his Ministering Servants

*The Missionary College at Serampore [John Ryland and William Ward]

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1841 JOHN STURGE. Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and the Civilization of Africa. John Wesley and the gift meant toA very scarce abolitionist pamphlet by John Sturge, brother of the celebratedr Joseph Sturge, who contributed a forward to this work. Joseph Sturge (17931859) was an English Quaker, abolitionist and activist who founded the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society (now Anti Slavery International) and worked throughout his life in Radical political actions supporting pacifism, working class rights, and the universal emancipation of slaves. The