Several years later he returned to the United States. Garnet's role as an abolitionist leader would diminish as the years progressed, although he would continue to remain active in the cause.

Many abolitionists initially advocated universal ... which had served as the most important training ground for its leaders and the most important repository for ideas of sexual as well as racial ...

Most of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade organisation were Quakers. John Wesley was a preacher and leader of the Methodist religious movement. An influential preacher ...