John Wesley's Thoughts upon slavery (1774): a reinterpretation of a public, abolitionist Methodist discourse in the hundredth twenty-fifth year of abolition in Brazil

This article continues the studies of the Thoughts upon slavery written in 1774 by John Wesley, an Anglican priest and spiritus rector of the Methodist movement. We propose a new reading that focuses more on the original aspects of this legal-theological treaty, and its discourse, carefully constructed around the double emphasis on justice and mercy, understood as the essence of natural law, ergo, the superior principle for the English legislation.